• Best Years By Closers In Their Final Season

    Posted by on February 21st, 2012 · Comments (6)

    It’s an interesting list -

    Rk Player WAR GF SV Year Age Tm G IP ERA ERA+
    1 Jeff Zimmerman 3.4 53 28 2001 28 TEX 66 71.1 2.40 197
    2 Steve Olin 3.0 62 29 1992 26 CLE 72 88.1 2.34 169
    3 Tom Henke 2.8 47 36 1995 37 STL 52 54.1 1.82 231
    4 Billy Wagner 2.7 64 37 2010 38 ATL 71 69.1 1.43 275
    5 Robb Nen 2.7 66 43 2002 32 SFG 68 73.2 2.20 177
    6 Andrew Bailey 2.4 42 25 2010 26 OAK 47 49.0 1.47 284
    7 J.P. Howell 2.0 41 17 2009 26 TBR 69 66.2 2.83 154
    8 Bobby Bolin 1.5 29 15 1973 34 BOS 39 53.1 2.70 151
    9 Ron Reed 1.3 38 12 1984 41 CHW 51 73.0 3.08 136
    10 Jeff Shaw 1.2 66 43 2001 34 LAD 77 74.2 3.62 110
    11 Danny Frisella 1.2 34 10 1976 30 TOT 50 72.0 3.12 113
    12 Russ Christopher 1.2 28 17 1948 30 CLE 45 59.0 2.90 141
    13 Brad Lidge 1.1 38 27 2010 33 PHI 50 45.2 2.96 137
    14 Salomon Torres 1.0 46 28 2008 36 MIL 71 80.0 3.49 121
    15 Ugueth Urbina 1.0 22 10 2005 31 TOT 81 79.2 3.62 122
    16 David Aardsma 0.9 43 31 2010 28 SEA 53 49.2 3.44 115
    17 John Wetteland 0.8 57 34 2000 33 TEX 62 60.0 4.20 120
    18 Jim Willoughby 0.7 47 13 1978 29 CHW 59 93.1 3.86 100
    19 Jim Brosnan 0.7 37 14 1963 33 TOT 51 77.2 3.13 112
    20 Manuel Corpas 0.3 27 10 2010 27 COL 56 62.1 4.62 101
    21 Randy Moffitt 0.3 33 10 1983 34 TOR 45 57.1 3.77 115
    22 Mudcat Grant 0.3 36 10 1971 35 TOT 57 102.1 3.17 110
    23 Bob Wickman 0.2 40 20 2007 38 TOT 57 50.1 3.58 125
    24 Randy Myers 0.2 42 28 1998 35 TOT 62 56.2 4.92 91
    25 Kazuhiro Sasaki 0.0 25 10 2003 35 SEA 35 33.1 4.05 107
    26 Hideki Irabu 0.0 26 16 2002 33 TEX 38 47.0 5.74 84
    27 Jim Turner 0.0 26 10 1945 41 NYY 30 54.1 3.64 96
    28 Rick Aguilera -0.1 44 29 2000 38 CHC 54 47.2 4.91 93
    29 Mike Henneman -0.1 45 31 1996 34 TEX 49 42.0 5.79 91
    30 Ted Power -0.1 24 13 1993 38 TOT 45 45.1 5.36 83
    31 Alfredo Simon -0.3 35 17 2010 29 BAL 49 49.1 4.93 86
    32 Bruce Sutter -0.4 26 14 1988 35 ATL 38 45.1 4.76 78
    33 Bob James -0.4 32 10 1987 28 CHW 43 54.0 4.67 99
    34 Rollie Fingers -0.4 37 17 1985 38 MIL 47 55.1 5.04 84
    35 Bob Moose -0.5 26 10 1976 28 PIT 53 88.0 3.68 95
    36 Willie Hernandez -0.6 25 15 1989 34 DET 32 31.1 5.74 68
    37 Trevor Hoffman -0.7 36 10 2010 42 MIL 50 47.1 5.89 67
    38 Todd Jones -0.8 37 18 2008 40 DET 45 41.2 4.97 91
    39 Jeff Montgomery -1.0 36 12 1999 37 KCR 49 51.1 6.84 74
    40 Todd Worrell -1.0 55 35 1997 37 LAD 65 59.2 5.28 74
    41 Mike Garman -1.1 35 13 1978 28 TOT 57 77.2 4.40 81
    42 Mike Williams -1.6 47 28 2003 34 TOT 68 63.0 6.14 69
    Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
    Generated 2/21/2012.

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    Totally forgot that Irabu closed games in his last season.

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    Comments on Best Years By Closers In Their Final Season

    1. Steve L.
      February 21st, 2012 | 1:43 pm

      Not sure how Bailey snuck through the PI filter?
    2. Evan3457
      February 21st, 2012 | 5:17 pm

      Because, as with Lidge, and at least 3 others on the list, last season was his, uh, “last season”.

      So far.

      (Well, actually, the play index hasn’t been updated to include the 2011 stats, so 2010 is not really Bailey’s “last season”.)
    3. redbug
      February 21st, 2012 | 5:46 pm

      I know why you brought this up…not liking the idea at all!!
    4. Steve L.
      February 21st, 2012 | 6:32 pm

      @ Evan3457: Actually, the 2011 data is in PI – and I ran the query thru 2010 to avoid having every closer in 2011 pop up in the results.

      @ redbug: FWIW, I really expect him to better everyone on this list with his 2012.
    5. Raf
      February 21st, 2012 | 7:04 pm

      redbug wrote:

      I know why you brought this up…not liking the idea at all!!

      LALALALALALALA I can’t hear yoooooooooooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
    6. redbug
      February 22nd, 2012 | 6:13 pm

      @ Raf:

      LOL!

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