The Mets have begun openly campaigning for Billy Wagner in this year's Cy Young race. This release was sent out today to at at least one of the BBWAA voters
BILLY WAGNER
Since the inception of the Cy Young Award in 1956, five relief pitchers have been honored, could the Mets’ Billy Wagner be the sixth? With two weeks to go, here are Wagner’s credentials.
“Minutes after Billy became a free agent last winter, I called him to let him know of our interest,” said Mets General Manager Omar Minaya. “We went down to his house in Virginia and told him that he could be the guy to solidify our bullpen and lead us to the post-season. He’s more than lived up to those expectations.”
“Saves are a just a number,” said Mets Manager Willie Randolph. “I’ve used him so many times to nail down an important win for us in non-save situations. He’s given our bullpen a sense of completeness that we didn’t have last year.”
¨ Is fourth in the majors with 13 saves when entering a game with a one-run lead…San Diego’s Trevor Hoffman is first with 15…Boston’s Jonathan Papelbon and the Angels’ Francisco Rodriguez are tied for second with 14.
¨ Has converted his last 16 save opportunities and has saved 24 of his last 25 chances.
¨ Has allowed two runs in his last 18.0 innings (1.00 ERA) dating back to August 2nd.
¨ Is tied for first in the NL with Trevor Hoffman and is tied for third in the majors with 38 saves, is fourth among NL relievers with a 2.14 ERA, is third with 86 strikeouts and is fifth with a .206 batting average against.
¨ Has at least one strikeout in 51 of 65 appearances (86 strikeouts in 67.1 innings – 11.5 strikeouts-per-nine-innings).
¨ Is five saves shy from tying Armando Benitez’ club record 43 saves in 2001.
¨ Moved into 12th place on the All-Time Save List with his 321st save after preserving New York’s 6-4 win on September 12th at Florida…Troy Percival is 11th on the List with 324 saves…Has already passed Jose Mesa, Rick Aguilera, Rod Beck, Bruce Sutter, Doug Jones, Jeff Montgomery, Rich Goosage, Tom Henke and Robb Nen this year.
¨ Became the fourth Met to record 30-or-more saves in a season with his 30th save on August 19th vs. Colorado when he preserved a 7-4 win…The others are Jesse Orosco (1984), John Franco (1990, 1991, 1994, 1997-1998) and Armando Benitez (2000-2002)…Now has seven seasons of 30-or-more saves (1998-1999, 2001-2003, 2005).
¨ Recorded his 12th career save of five-or-more outs and second with the Mets on July 30th at Atlanta in New York’s 10-6 win.
¨ Notched his 300th career save on July 4th vs. Pittsburgh in a 7-6 victory…Became the 20th pitcher to reach that plateau and only the third lefthanded pitcher to do so…John Franco and Randy Myers are the others… Ranks sixth among active relievers in saves and is third on the All-Time Save List by lefties.
Comments (14)
Why don't you go ahead and make Billy Wagner the "President of the United States" you clowns.
As long as we are in fantasy island. Billy Wagner does have 5 blown saves.
But Tattoo and mr.Rork can make him appear better than others:
Brandon Webb,
Chris Carpenter,
and Carlos Zambrano.
Stop.
Duaner Sanchez eclipsed Billy Wagner's efforts in the 1st half,
and everyone knows it.
Billy Wagner is no Cy Young.
REALITY:
ALEX RODRIGUEZ--
104 RUNS, 33HR, 112 RBI
DAVID WRIGHT--
90 RUNS, 24HR, 110 RBI
WHEN CUTE DAVE SCORES 14 MORE RUNS,
HITS 9 MORE HOMERS
AND TWO MORE RBI
CALL ME ...........
UNTIL THEN MET FANS SHUTUP
Ha! I love this , the only Young Wagner is gonna get could be egg foo young at the all you can eat chineese buffet and donut shop.
Billy Wagner is overrated,
he is no Mo Rivera.
Wagner,Glavine and now Pedro are CY Done candidates and Lastings is rookie of the Jeer.
PEDRO THERE IS NO CRYING IN BASEBALL.
Thank god Barry Zito is a free agent next year. I can't imagine worrying about Pedro and Glavine next season because they may be bumped to the third and fourth starters on the team.
LOONIES GONE WILD; WILLIE-MANAGER OF THE YEAR WAGNER-CY YOUNG REYES,WRIGHT,BELTRAN-MVP THIS IS A TEAM THAT IS NOT GETTING OUT OF THE FIRST ROUNG OF THE PLAYOFFS.SINCE JUNE PEDRO 6.39ERA.....SINCE JULY GLAVINE 5.03ERA.....TRACHSEL 6.35ERA. TRUTH IS NOT AS GOOD AS HYPE.STOP IGNORING THE FACTS AND FACE REALITY.THE WHEELS ARE OFF THIS FRANCHISE AND IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE.
Now I understand why Gary Cohen mentioned Billy Wagner as a Cy Young Award candidate during the game vs. Florida on Wednesday night. Before he said this, many Mets fans would not have considered Billy as a Cy Young Award candidate. Billy has been great since the All-Star Break and deserves consideration. That said, Gary Cohen, using the SNY Mets telecast to promote this thought was probably not an objective thing to do. After all, SNY is all about being objective when discussing the Mets, and for the most part I think the telecasts have exhibited that. This was not such a case.
AROD
BA: .288
ERRORS: 23
SALARY: 25 MILLION
CLUTCH HITS 0
EXCUSES: TOO MUCH PRESSURE; NO ONE LIKES ME;
PHANTOM "INJURY" 'NEW POSITION"
DAVID WRIGHT
BA: .309
SALARY 374,000
ERRORS 17
CLUTCH HITS: TOO MANY TO COUNT BUT 2 OUT 2 RBI HIT IN FLORIDA THIS WEEK JUST MOST RECENT EXAMPLE
EXCUSES: NONE "I JUST NEED TO WORK HARDER"
HONEST ABE:
PEOPLE ON THIS BLOG HAVE BEEN SAYING THE WHEELS ARE COMING OFF THE FRANCHISE SINCE JUNE; THAT THE ASTROS ARE BETTER, THE DODGERS ARE BETTER, THE MARLINS. FUNNY THING IS, THE METS CONTINUALLY FIND WAYS TO BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF THESE TEAMS. THEY HAVE NOT HAD A LOSING STREAK OF MORE THAN 4 GAMES AND THEY DID THAT ONCE. WHILE PEDRO'S CONDITION IS SCARY, GLAVINE HAS PITCHED WELL IN HIS LAST TWO GAMES AND THE METS HAVE WON 8 OF EL DUQUE'S LAST 10 STARTS.
THE REALITY IS THAT THIS TEAM IS VERY GOOD, CAN BEAT THE YANKEES OR ANYONE ELSE THROWN AT THEM AND WIN IT ALL.
GARY COHEN IS A EMPTY HEADED SHILL.......MT IS A EMPTY HEADED IS A EMPTY HEADED CRACKPOT.
GLAVINE since Sept 1 - 3games- 17 innings - 18 hits and 9 earned runs.This man has more miles on him then MR.METS fur mitten
JAMIE MOYER,
SEPTEMBER NUMBERS:
3.38 ERA
21 IP, 16 HITS, 8 ER, 2 BB, 9 SO.
I AM STILL WAITING FOR MT....
FEEL ME.
Steve
Do we really need a 43 year old finesse pitcher. Don't we have enough of them? Mets clubbed him, so did the Braves in his last start.
Let it go.