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At its inception in 2014, the panel consisted of the top five relievers in career saves at the time—Rivera, Hoffman, Lee Smith, John Franco, and Billy Wagner—and the four living relief pitchers who were in the Hall of Fame: Dennis Eckersley, Rollie Fingers, Goose Gossage, and Bruce Sutter.
The Sporting News Reliever of the Year Award was an annual award presented to the best relief pitcher in each league in Major League Baseball (MLB). [1] It was established in 1960 by The Sporting News (TSN) as the Fireman of the Year Award. At the time, no reliever had ever received a Cy Young Award vote. [2]
Mariano Rivera [2] [3] [4] is the all-time leader in saves with 652. Rivera and Trevor Hoffman [5] are the only pitchers in MLB history to save more than 600 career games. Lee Smith, [6] Kenley Jansen, [7] Craig Kimbrel, [8] Francisco Rodríguez, [9] John Franco, [10] and Billy Wagner [11] are the only other pitchers to save more than 400 games ...
Williams, in his first full season as closer, carried on the Brewers tradition of great relief pitching with a dominant 2023 season. He pitched in 61 games, saving 36 of them, while sporting a 1. ...
Cleveland Indians (now Cleveland Guardians) relief pitchers Aaron Fultz and Rafael Betancourt warming up in the bullpen at Jacobs Field in 2007. In baseball and softball, a relief pitcher or reliever is a pitcher who pitches in the game after the starting pitcher or another relief pitcher has been removed from the game due to fatigue, injury, ineffectiveness, ejection, high pitch count, or for ...
Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Kenley Jansen briefly raised his arms while walking off the mound Wednesday, just after striking out Atlanta Braves catcher Travis d'Arnaud to end the game.
Relief pitchers enter the game after the starting pitcher is removed. The award was sponsored by the antacid brand Rolaids , whose slogan was "R-O-L-A-I-D-S spells relief." Because the first closers were nicknamed " firemen ", a reference to "putting out the fire" of another team's rally, the trophy was a gold-plated firefighter's helmet.
Relief pitchers are quietly taking a bigger chunk of the fantasy baseball landscape. It isn't always sexy, but in this game, we just want the numbers. And the recent trends are hard to ignore.