For the fourth time in the past eight years, the 10 th and final shot was on the money for a would-be-Baseball Hall of Famer. Billy Wagner, faced with his last chance at earning enshrinement to ...
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Wagner, who spent four seasons with the Mets, attained 73.8 percent of the vote last year. It left him within five votes of reaching the 75 percent threshold needed for induction. If Wagner isn ...
Now, in his 10th inning on the Hall of Fame ballot, Billy Wagner is alone on the mound without the ball. And oh, is it awful. “You’re sitting here and you can’t control it,” Wagner said by ...
Wagner is one of baseball's best relievers over the last 30 years. He now joins outfielder Ichiro Suzuki and starting pitcher CC Sabathia as the inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame class of 2025.
The seven-time All-Star, in his final year of eligibility, was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame with 82.5 percent of the vote. When Wagner got the call on his phone that he’d indeed be ...
With seven All-Star appearances, Wagner matches Hall of Fame closer Trevor Hoffman. His rate stats are even better, though Hoffman had 153 more appearances and 179 more saves. In terms of WAR ...
Players eligible for the Hall of Fame must appear on 75-plus percent of ballots to secure induction, a bar that eluded Wagner in recent years. But the seven-time All-Star continues to make ...
Welcome to the Hall of Fame, Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner. It's a remarkable achievement to survive the gauntlet of baseball writers to get elected to Cooperstown: After all, the ...
That is the short reason why Wagner should be elected to the Hall of Fame when voting results of the Baseball Writers Association of America are announced Tuesday. And yet, it’s a cliffhanger.
Billy Wagner is one of baseball's newest Hall of Famers, and he received another honor this week. The Houston Astros will retire his No. 13 this summer, the team announced Tuesday. The ceremony will ...