On January 21, 2025, all-time great closer Billy Wagner was elected to the Hall of Fame. A version of this story originally ...
Aren’t all relief pitchers just failed starters? In Billy Wagner’s case, the answer is a definite no. The power-packed left-hander never started a game in his major league career (though he ...
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 ...
Billy Wagner may have been an Astro and a Phillie at least as much as he was a Met, but that doesn’t erase the fact that he ...
Over the past 105 years, Billy Wagner is one of the best pitchers at the most elemental definition of the craft—while pitching mostly with the game on the line. Folks, that is a Hall of Famer.
Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner will join Dave Parker and Dick Allen this summer in Cooperstown, New York.
Former Houston Astros closer Billy Wagner felt like the clock stopped from 2 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. yesterday afternoon, the final day of his final year of eligibility to be voted into the Baseball Hall of ...
Billy Wagner, a flame-throwing left-hander who was one of the elite strikeout artists of his generation, will take his place ...