Billy Wagner Improved Another Ex-Braves Closer's Hall of Fame Candidacy: Analyst
The Athletic's Jayson Stark took a deep dive into the Hall of Fame chances for a couple modern day closers with Billy Wagner ...
Is Billy Wagner really a Hall of Famer? A few thoughts on this year’s BBWAA voting.
In electing Wagner, the BBWAA has defined the modern-day closer as its own entity, with candidates’ credentials measured not ...
Billy Wagner’s emotional Baseball Hall of Fame selection: ‘Felt like the clock stopped’
Billy Wagner received 82.5 percent of the tally from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, after he missed by just ...
Baseball HOF Class Of 2025: Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia And Billy Wagner
Ichiro falls a vote short of being the second unanimous choice ever. CC makes it in his first year of eligibility, Wagner in ...
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Former Astros closer Billy Wagner joins Craig Biggio, Jeff Bagwell in Baseball Hall of Fame
For Billy Wagner, once more, prestige lay in the final frame ... received 99.7%of the vote, preserving Mariano Rivera as the ...
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Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner headed to Cooperstown
Suzuki, the first Japanese-born inductee, will be joined by longtime ace left-hander CC Sabathia and hard-throwing closer ...
Yankees’ CC Sabathia elected to Hall of Fame; Ichiro Suzuki, Billy Wagner also make Class of 2025
The BBWAA recognized CC Sabathia’s prolonged excellence by voting the former Yankees left-hander into the National Baseball ...
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Billy Wagner Improved Another Ex-Braves Closer's Hall of Fame Candidacy: Analyst
Billy Wagner only spent one season of his MLB career ... "The standard for Hall of Fame closers is basically: Column A) Mariano Rivera … and Column B) everybody else," wrote Stark.