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This list uses my Hall-of-Fame Metric, which I explained in detail in an earlier post: introducing-my-hall-of-fame-metric.html For Closing Pitchers, our Hall of Fame line is approximately 1225 points, with one player exception due to his era. Current Hall of Famers will be highlighted in gold, with snubs and future hall of famers highlighted in green. Current players are italicized.
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And there's our top 25 closing pitchers of all-time. Rounding out the rest of the list are: 26. Robb Nen, 1099 points 27. Dave Righetti, 1086.3 points (one of 3 closers on this list with a no-hitter) 28. Sparky Lyle, 1076.7 points (one of 9 closers on this list with a Cy Young) 29. Armando Benitez, 1072.1 points 30. Jeff Montgomery, 1063.8 points 31. Todd Worrell, 1061.3 points 32. Rod Beck, 1050.9 points 33. Rick Aguilera, 1047.7 points 34. Doug Jones, 1031.9 points 35. Willie Hernandez, 1028.4 points (one of 9 closers on this list with a Cy Young, and one of 4 with an MVP) 36. Heath Bell, 1009.9 points 37. Francisco Cordero, 1007.6 points 38. Todd Jones, 1006.7 points 39. Jason Isringhausen, 993.5 points 40. Fernando Rodney, 990.8 points 41. Roberto Hernandez, 983.1 points 42. Steve Bedrosian, 982.7 points (one of 9 closers on this list with a Cy Young) 43. Joakim Soria, 978.3 points 44. Ugueth Urbina, 975.9 points (attempted murder isn't really a career helper) 45. Brad Lidge, 973.1 points 46. Mike Marshall, 962.2 points (one of 9 closers on this list with a Cy Young) 47. Bob Wickman, 960.8 points 48. Roy Face, 959.2 points (The Baron was a 6x All-Star and early pioneer for closers) 49. Jose Mesa, 956.5 points (unfortunately 4th highest in career walks) 50. Lindy McDaniel, 938.1 points (3rd on the list in wins & 4th in strikeouts, but 5th in walks) 51. Tug McGraw, 929.3 points (his son was a singer, or Something Like That) 52. Bill Campbell, 922 points 53. Brian Fuentes, 920.1 points 54. Bobby Thigpen, 915 points (set the record for most saves in a season with 57 in 1990, broken by K-Rod) 55. Brian Wilson, 913.6 points (how about that beard though?) 56. Kent Tekulve, 882.3 points 57. Jim Konstanty, 878.3 points (one of 4 closers on this list with an MVP) 58. Jesse Orosco, 876.5 points (one of only 29 players in history to play in 4 decades) 59. Mark Davis, 824.9 points (one of 9 closers on this list with a Cy Young) And there's our final list. Thanks again for reading and hopefully you agree somewhat with the rankings. I've attached a spreadsheet with the full process of my calculations below:
I would also like to credit the Baseball-Reference and Wikipedia pages for each player for providing the information necessary to form this list.
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