Hall of Fame voters have only recently started to give love toward some of the greatest closers in the game. Mariano Rivera was the first unanimous vote-getter in 2019 and justifiably so. He was by far the greatest closer to ever hold a baseball. During his reign of terror, there was another man doing some pretty sweet things in the ninth inning: former New York Mets closer Billy Wagner.
Wagner is in a different class than Rivera, but so is everyone else. This doesn’t mean Wagner should be punished with little acknowledgment in the Hall of Fame vote every year.