The story of the sport of baseball is told as much by what is gone as by what has remained. This year's "Baseball 101," our ...

None, though, are proven or obvious closer material. The projected Opening Day bullpen has tallied 48 major-league saves ...

The last time the Orioles’ closer was on a mound, he was in the midst of a Mariano Rivera American League ... s MLB tenure and Sugano’s years in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball.

The 23-year-old Japanese superstar is eligible for the ... saves leader for 13 seasons before Trevor Hoffman and then Mariano Rivera passed him. Jansen trails only Rivera with 20 postseason ...

Best pitcher: Mariano Rivera. You have to be pretty special ... Toughest omission: Masahiro Tanaka. The Japanese right-hander produced better numbers than Pettitte, but it was too difficult ...

In what has become something of an unofficial start-of-season tradition, Yahoo Sports simulated the entire 2025 season in MLB ...

Longtime Japanese baseball reporter Jim Allen ... Only one player, longtime New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, has ever been named on every ballot.

Like Matsui, Japan's equivalent of Barry Bonds on the ... He had a talk with Mariano Rivera, and former Cuban teammate Adrian Hernandez left his telephone number in Contreras' locker.

Kenley Jansen leads among active pitchers with 447 saves, while Mariano Rivera has the record with 652. Kimbrel is 56-47 over his career with a 2.59 ERA, 339 walks and 1,265 strikeouts in 809 2/3 ...

That’s why we play for the New York Yankees.” That enthusiasm is shared by one of the organization’s icons, Mariano Rivera, who recently told USA TODAY Sports he thinks the Yankees “have ...

It is a problem most skiers and snowboarders would pay to have. Japan, long revered as a powder Mecca, has faced a chilling reality in recent years: warming winters, diminished snowfall ...