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 ...
How former Houston Astros great Billy Wagner made unlikely climb to reach Baseball Hall of Fame
To gain entry to the Baseball Hall of Fame, Billy Wagner completed a climb few candidates have managed. Wagner, the former ...
Former Astros closer Billy Wagner joins Craig Biggio, Jeff Bagwell in Baseball Hall of Fame
In his 10th and final year on the ballot, former Astros closer Billy Wagner earned is place in Cooperstown, N.Y. in the ...
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 ...
Fenway made a big impression on Billy Wagner while he was on the road to Cooperstown
Wagner had a 1.98 earned run average and struck out 22 of the 56 batters he faced in his 15 games for the Red sox in 2009.
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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 ...
Will Ichiro Suzuki join Mariano Rivera as only players to get 100% of Hall of Fame vote?
Other bits of intrigue ahead of Tuesday's 6 p.m. announcement: Will CC Sabathia be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, and is this ...
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 ...
Billy Wagner’s Whiffs Should Help Him Cinch Election to the Hall of Fame
Leading up to the Baseball Hall of Fame class announcement on Jan. 21, we’ve been examining the cases of notable candidates ...
Will there be a ‘Hall of Fame bump’ for Ichiro, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner’s baseball cards?
Ichiro Suzuki had already cemented a strong, and likely everlasting baseball card market long before Tuesday’s almost ...
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Is Billy Wagner really a Hall of Famer? A few thoughts on this year's BBWAA voting.
Not the 82.5% of HOF voters who decided that Billy Wagner deserves a spot amongst ... ranking alongside Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman in every closer category between 1996 to 2010.