Best Closer Ever In Baseball

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Best closer ever in baseball.

Like many trends in baseball teams copied the a s approach and the official closer position was born. The closer is a relatively recent invention in major league baseball. He retired after the 2013 season with an mlb record 652 saves and 952 games finished also the most. Remember when everyone wanted the padres to trade yates to a team at the deadline to help.

While not usually appearing in 9th innings of games pressly is certainly the guy the stros are turning to in high leverage situations. Another non conventional closer at the top of the list maybe you re sensing a theme that the mlb is changing is the astros ryan pressly. He s still a brewer and thus the brewers still feel like the brewers. Saves weren t an official statistic until 1969 and for most of the game s history up to that point pitchers were.

Yes there had been closers in the past but they mostly went 2 or even 3 innings to close. His 601 saves were the most all time until no. 1 on this list passed him in the 2011 season. 2 padres kirby yates rhp.

The best closers in baseball history mariano rivera dennis eckersley goose gossage trevor hoffman john smoltz rollie fingers bruce sutter lee smith billy wagner aroldis chapman craig kimbrel dan quisenberry sparky lyle hoyt wilhelm tug mcgraw dave righetti francisco rodríguez kenley jansen éric.