Best Closer Ever In Baseball

His 601 saves were the most all time until no.

Best closer ever in baseball.

While not usually appearing in 9th innings of games pressly is certainly the guy the stros are turning to in high leverage situations. Best closers of all time 1. He retired after the 2013 season with an mlb record 652 saves and 952 games finished also the most. 2 padres kirby yates rhp.

3 astros roberto. Like many trends in baseball teams copied the a s approach and the official closer position was born. The eck sixth. 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. 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. 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. Ranking mlb s closers right now 1 to 30 1 brewers josh hader lhp.

He s still a brewer and thus the brewers still feel like the brewers.