Wagner, Baseball Hall of Fame

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 against the whole of the body but against this specific peer group.
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 Houston Astros closer, attained the 75% support from voters required for election in his final year of eligibility on the writers’ ballot.
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 five votes last year.
Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.
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 National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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 Hall of Fame.
Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2025
The trio of stars, each of whom spent part of their career in New York, will be inducted in Cooperstown on July 27.
Astros’ Hall of Famers react to Billy Wagner’s Cooperstown honor
Several Houston Astros’ legends reacted to Billy Wagner’s selection into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The former closer’s road to Cooperstown began in Houston in 1995. During his nine years with the Astros,
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.
Bill Madden: Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner make up electric Hall of Fame trio
In Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner, the Baseball Writers Association delivered quite an eclectic trifecta to ...
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Ferrum College baseball legend, Miller School coach Billy Wagner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Miller School baseball coach Billy Wagner, known to the outside world as the best lefthanded closer in MLB history, is a ...
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Here's why Andruw Jones, Billy Wagner belong in HOF
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Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner headed to Cooperstown
Ichiro Suzuki missed unanimous election to the Baseball Hall of Fame by one vote Tuesday night when he headlined a ...
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MLB: Tazewell High School grad Billy Wagner gets long-awaited call from Cooperstown
It was as close to lights out as Mariano Rivera and I honestly believe that. Billy Wagner for me should have been in the Hall of Fame years ago.” Former MLB third baseman Sean Berry remembers ...
One dissenting vote cannot diminish induction into Hall of Fame: The week in baseball
The identity of the writer has not been revealed and may never be. BBWAA members who vote for the Hall of Fame have to be in ...
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