Tag: saves

Hall of Fame Case: Billy Wagner

There are 10 players eligible for induction into the Hall of Fame who have the Mets on some portion of their resume. Next is one of the best in major league history, who spent three-and-half-years in New York and who’s on the doorstep of Cooperstown. If you’re a 5-foot-10 left-hander, throwing 100 miles per hour in the 1990s doesn’t compute—more so if you figured out how to...

Mets Best Free-Agent Signing No. 3: Billy Wagner

This offseason, we’re looking at the Mets’ history with free agency. The list has included several pitchers, and next up is our first relief pitcher — one of the best of his era. The closer experiment in New York Mets history has frequently failed. Beginning in 2006, it didn’t. Billy Wagner signed a four-year, $43 million contract in November 2005 and continued a successful...