Billy Wagner News

Billy Wagner loved being with the Red Sox [ team stats ] so much at the end of the 2009 season, the reliever may want to come back after all.

As many as six others could file in the coming days. The stakes are high for both Bay and the Red Sox.

Lost in the Billy Wagner may-or-may-not retire storyline that's floated around lately, you probably missed the news that Texas Rangers hitting coach Rudy Jaramillo will not return to his post in 2010 after what Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News describes as declining what amounted to a lame-duck offer anyway .

Now that the Red Sox have been eliminated in painful fashion, let the panic trade rumors begin! First up, yesterday's goat, Jonathan Papelbon: "In the wake of Boston's 7-6 loss to Los Angeles in the ALDS, message boards and Twitter feeds everywhere wondered if Papelbon had thrown his last pitch in a Red Sox uniform.

Billy Wagner 's agent refuted Tuesday's reports that the closer, who just completed his 15th season and is 15 saves short of 400, is planning to retire.

Billy Wagner might be leaning toward choosing retirement over closing games next season, according to a report in the New York Post.

Ace closer Jonathan Papelbon couldn't save Boston's season. The intimidating right-hander had never allowed a run in any of his 26 postseason innings before Sunday.

The phone rang in that chaotic bottom of the seventh inning on Friday night, and left-hander Billy Wagner got the word that it was his turn.

They told us he was a stand-up guy. Here, therefore, is Billy Wagner on his six previous postseason performances: "You have to say it sucks.

With their fifth division title since 2002 safely tucked away after one of baseball's most dramatic post-seasons games in many years, the Minnesota Twins are not likely to be able to stop the New York Yankees.

Boston reliever Billy Wagner on the mound against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium.

Those Tampa Bay Rays fans hoping the team signs a legitimate, big league closer this offseason, well ... it's not going to happen.

Mike Lowell was limping a bit in the clubhouse Monday but expects to be fresher than he's been in weeks by this weekend.

If the Yankees win a game, but the game was called by Tim McCarver, is there a Yankee who hasn't killed himself who stayed alive to hear the game? The Yankees shut down the Red Sox in game 2 of the much hyped series, with CC Sabathia retiring the first 11 batters before walking Jacoby Ellsbury in the 4th.

Six months are in the books, and now the Red Sox get ready for the time of year they've been plotting for all along.

The word around baseball is that Chris Carter, whom the Mets were allegedly going to receive as the player-to-be-named-later in the Billy Wagner trade has been designated for assignment .

Billy Wagner gives up two unearned runs in two-thirds of an inning. Articles Yankees-Red Sox Game-by-Game His bad outing was barely in the books and Billy Wagner was sitting in front of his locker shaking his head.

Rangers reliever Eddie Guardado is ready to take on a new moniker after 17 seasons in the major leagues.

Billy Wagner has been around the block a couple of times in his 14-year career. Tonight, he gets his first look at the most storied rivalry in the game: Yankees - Red Sox [ team stats ] . "You hear all the talk about it, it will be nice to live through it one time, see how it works," Wagner said before last night's series-concluding 10-3 win over ...

In an ideal world Chris Carter's September plans would entail patrolling the outfield turf at either Fenway Park or Citi Field in New York.