BILLY WAGNER, once a top closer, on waiting to find out whether he will make the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday. This is his last year on the writers’ ballot; he fell five votes short of being ...

By now one would hope Pete Alonso has finally gotten the memo: The Mets never wanted him back. That’s why they never budged ...

Ichiro has appeared on all 163 public ballots (44.4% of total). Sabathia (93.1%), Wagner (85.1%) and Beltran (80.5%) are ...

The Baseball Hall of Fame told Billy Wagner last January to watch TV and stay near a phone when the election results were announced. It finally seemed time for Wagner, the former Phillies closer who ...

As the opinion of relievers change, so do votes for former Houston reliever Billy Wagner who is in final year on Hall of Fame ...

New York Mets closer Billy Wagner (13) celebrates with catcher Brian Schneider after closing out the Mets 3-1 victory over ...

Ichiro might be the only inductee this summer. Fine, he deserves the spotlight. But we get 10 votes. Here are mine, ranked, ...

CC Sabathia had 3,093 strikeouts and 251 wins. On that alone, he should get in. We may never see those kind of numbers again. After all, how many top starting pitchers do we currently have in the game ...

A guide to how the Baseball Hall of Fame selects its members each year through voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of ...

Major league career: pitched for Houston, Philadelphia, New York Mets, Boston and Atlanta from 1995-2010; ranks eighth in MLB history with 422 saves; struck out 1,196 batters; had a 2.31 ERA.

Billy Wagner spent four years with the Mets after becoming a star closer with the Houston Astros. He racked up 73.8% of the ...