Yes there had been closers in the past but they mostly went 2 or even 3 innings to close.
Best closer ever in baseball.
Saves weren t an official statistic until 1969 and for most of the game s history up to that point pitchers were.
He retired after the 2013 season with an mlb record 652 saves and 952 games finished also the most.
His 601 saves were the most all time until no.
2 padres kirby yates rhp.
Like many trends in baseball teams copied the a s approach and the official closer position was born.
The eck sixth.
The closer is a relatively recent invention in major league baseball.
1 on this list passed him in the 2011 season.
Ranking mlb s closers right now 1 to 30 1 brewers josh hader lhp.
While not usually appearing in 9th innings of games pressly is certainly the guy the stros are turning to in high leverage situations.
Remember when everyone wanted the padres to trade yates to a team at the deadline to help.
3 astros roberto.
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.