When he takes the podium in Cooperstown, Baseball Hall of Famer Billy Wagner will mention a few Virginia towns in his ...

It was a long time coming, but Billy Wagner finally closed it out. And he couldn't keep the emotions from flowing. The seven-time All-Star, in his final year of eligibility, was elected into the ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Billy Wagner’s baseball lives converged Friday at the spring ballpark of his past club. A high school tournament had Wagner in south Florida with the Miller School of ...

Billy Wagner just missed getting voted into the Hall of Fame, garnering 73.8 percent of the vote. Getty Images. I’m not anti-reliever, I’m pro-starter.

The 2021 Baseball Hall of Fame voting cycle marks the sixth for former superstar closer Billy Wagner. He started with 10.5 percent of the vote in 2016 and jumped up to 31.7 percent last year.

Ideally, Billy Wagner says, he won’t get too wrapped up in this Hall of Fame season, won’t be poring over columns (like this one) that peek into his fascinating Cooperstown case.

A vote for Wagner is hardly worthy of a witch hunt. He checked off a lot of boxes during a 16-year career that included a two-season stint with the Phillies sandwiched between his eight-plus years ...