Billy Wagner fell just short in his quest to enter the Baseball Hall of Fame last January. The legendary former Houston Astros closer projects to qualify for Cooperstown when the results for the class of 2025 are announced Monday night.

Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman and senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz praise longtime MLB relief pitcher Billy Wagner’s dominant career and say that he will definitely join the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2025.

My Baseball Hall of Fame voting process hasn’t changed since the winter of 2005 when I started receiving a BBWAA ballot in the mail every November.

Billy Wagner is in his final year on the National Baseball Hall of Fame ballot. Should he get a last-minute invitation to Cooperstown?

Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman discuss the possible Baseball Hall of Fame class of 2025 and who might get in, the latest on Roki Sasaki's free agency, another reliever coming off the board, and answer your questions from the BBQ Mailbag.

Next summer’s Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony could have a Yankees’ flavor with right fielder Ichiro Suzuki and pitcher CC Sabathia tracking to be voted in with ease as first-year candidates, and outfielder Carlos Beltran also above the necessary 75 percent threshold.

Hall of Fame voting has technically already finished. For a BBWAA writer to have their vote counted in this year’s election, the vote had to be completed and returned by the final day of 2024. I’m not sure if that date is a “postmarked by” deadline,