Billy Wagner doesn’t do subtlety. He comes right at you, with a blazing fastball and straight talk. So, if anyone wondered which team’s cap he will choose for his Hall of Fame plaque, he wore an ...

Once more, for baseball immortality, Billy Wagner closed it out. Wagner, the dominant closer who played a two-season sliver of his 16-year career with the Phillies, got elected Tuesday night to the ...

The Baseball Writers' Association of America announced the 2025 Hall of Fame Class on Tuesday, with Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner ... the top options below. Hamels probably presents ...

Now that the star-studded group of Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner have joined Dave ... on the potential 2026 ballot is lefthander Cole Hamels, who won 163 games in a 15-year career.

Billy Wagner: The toughest pitcher to hit among ... With Sabathia, Suzuki and Wagner off the ballot and Ryan Braun and Cole Hamels being the best first-year candidates next year, the two center ...

The leading 2025 vote-getters who will return to the 2026 ballot are Carlos Beltran (70.3%), Andruw Jones (66.2%) and Chase Utley (39.8%), along a handful of other holdovers. In addition to Hamels and ...

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner will be enshrined in Cooperstown ... That'll carry some weight with some voters. Hamels also got Cy Young votes in four different seasons, topping ...

The bad news is that Andruw Jones will have to wait at least one more year. The good news is that he is on a path similar to the one traveled by former Braves closer Billy Wagner, one of the ...

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner Elected to Baseball Hall ... from future ballots after receiving less than 5%. Cole Hamels, Ryan Braun and Matt Kemp join the ballot next year.

The Baseball Hall of Fame's 2025 class is official with Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner voted in ... Longtime left-handed pitcher Cole Hamels has the best career WAR (59) among ...