The Athletic's Jayson Stark took a deep dive into the Hall of Fame chances for a couple modern day closers with Billy Wagner ...

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.

In electing Wagner, the BBWAA has defined the modern-day closer as its own entity, with candidates’ credentials measured not ...

Miller School baseball coach Billy Wagner, known to the outside world as the best lefthanded closer in MLB history, is a ...

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 the year Billy Wagner gets in?

For Billy Wagner, once more, prestige lay in the final frame ... received 99.7%of the vote, preserving Mariano Rivera as the Hall’s only unanimous selection. Sabathia, the enduring left-handed pitcher ...

Billy Wagner is approaching the peak in his climb ... Trevor Hoffman in 2018 and Mariano Rivera the following year. Although his career might not stack up with Mo’s, he and Hoffman could be ...

Billy Wagner pitched for five organizations in ... Goose Gossage, Trevor Hoffman, Mariano Rivera, Lee Smith, Bruce Sutter and Hoyt Wilhelm. Wagner is the only left-hander in that group and will ...

The left-handed flamethrower is by some measures the hardest pitcher to make contact off of in MLB history. In his final year of BBWAA eligibility, his election may come down to the wire.

The BBWAA recognized CC Sabathia’s prolonged excellence by voting the former Yankees left-hander into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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.