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

Billy Wagner anxiously waited for his moment, but not just for himself, for what it meant to the future of baseball.

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.

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 ...

Chase Utley is well-positioned to someday reach the 75% mark for election, but Jimmy Rollins and Bobby Abreu are spinning ...

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he ...

Wagner erupted in tears as he received the news of his induction during a phone call with Hall of Fame representatives in ...

Ichiro Suzuki had already cemented a strong, and likely everlasting baseball card market long before Tuesday’s almost ...

Houston Astros reliever Billy Wagner made it into the Baseball Hall of Fame on his final year to be on the ballot.

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner reached the necessary 75% support on the BBWAA Hall of Fame ballot revealed ...

Ichiro Suzuki, C.C. Sabathia and Billy Wagner were elected as the newest members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the ...

The trio of stars, each of whom spent part of their career in New York, will be inducted in Cooperstown on July 27.