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

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 ...

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.

In Billy Wagner’s case, the answer is a definite ... Hall members Hoffman (601) and Mariano Rivera (652) are far and away the all-time leaders, with Wagner considerably further behind in eighth ...

Not the 82.5% of HOF voters who decided that Billy Wagner deserves a spot amongst ... ranking alongside Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman in every closer category between 1996 to 2010.

It’s such an honor,” now Hall of Famer, Billy Wagner said. This year’s Hall ... standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Mariano Rivera and Trevor Hoffman in every key closer statistic from ...

Billy Wagner has been elected to the National Baseball ... The slender, 5-foot-10 lefty was the best non-Mariano-Rivera reliever in baseball from 1997-03, a time in which Wagner posted a 2.55 ...

Former Houston Astros closer Billy Wagner's election to the Baseball Hall of Fame capped a climb with voters that few players have accomplished.