3 days ago · Watch as CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner tour the Baseball Hall of Fame and check out their newly installed plaques

A seven-time All-Star and the 1999 National League (NL) Rolaids Relief Man Award winner, Wagner is one of only eight major league relief pitchers to reach 400 career saves. A left-handed batter and thrower, Wagner stands 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighs 180 pounds (82 kg).

Jan 22, 2025 · Billy Wagner was a dominant reliever for 16 seasons. New York Post Known for a high-powered fastball, Wagner recorded 100-plus strikeouts in a season four times. In New York, Wagner was a two-time ...

Jan 22, 2025 · 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.

Jan 23, 2025 · Two days after receiving the telephone call that brought them to Cooperstown, right fielder Ichiro Suzuki, starting pitcher CC Sabathia and closer Billy Wagner found themselves in an oak-walled Plaque Gallery surrounded by 348 bronze images. The trio of stars, contemporaries who blossomed in the first decade of the 20th century, combined for 23 All-Star Game selections, 28 postseason series ...

Jan 21, 2025 · NEW YORK -- Billy Wagner may have been an Astro and a Phillie at least as much as he was a Met, but that doesn’t erase the fact that he was, indeed, a Met. Wagner was an important one, too, spending three-plus years as the closer in Queens following stints in Houston and Philadelphia.

Jan 24, 2025 · Former Yankees Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia joined former Met Billy Wagner on Thursday at a news conference about being elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Jan 22, 2025 · The BBWAA recognized CC Sabathia’s prolonged excellence by voting the former Yankees left-hander into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Jan 21, 2025 · Three new members will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2025, as Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, and Billy Wagner were elected into the hallowed halls of Cooperstown on Tuesday. Each...

Prior to the 2006 season, Wagner became the highest paid reliever in the game at the time when he signed a four-year deal with the New York Mets. He put together another successful campaign, recording 40 saves as New York ran away with the NL East.