Player Profile #95: Mariano Rivera | RP | NYY
It seems our closers get ranked in bunches, huh? We ranked four closers from 190-196, and two times since then we’ve ranked two closers back to back. Well, make that three times. Drew Storen, our 96th-ranked player, and Mariano Rivera, number 95, are a fascinating pairing. While Storen brings youthfulness and potential, Rivera brings experience and dependability. Because of age...
Via Baseball Professor
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11 days ago
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11 days ago
Mariano Rivera Player Projection No. 76
Key Stats: This is probably the easiest player to write about every year. I could just same what I said last year. Or the year before. Or the year before that. It just doesn’t change with Mariano Rivera. He doesn’t age.
He’s had 9 straight seasons with at least 30 saves and since turning 40 he’s saved 77 games. His WHIP has been below 1.13 for 14 straight seasons and since...
Via Fantasy Baseball 365
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15 days ago
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15 days ago
Jeter and Rivera: The Breakthrough Two
Ever since the news came down a few weeks ago that Jorge Posada was going to announce his retirement, I have been trying to figure out what to call Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera, the two remaining members of the Core Four. Well, I think I have figured it out.People have been coming up with names that just don't sit right with me. My cousin Eddie felt that the name was staring...
Via Lady At The Bat
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18 days ago
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18 days ago
Players to Celebrate in 2012: Mariano Rivera
The 2012 season may be the last for some of the best players of this generation. Yesterday we focused on Chipper Jones in the first part of a series celebrating these players. Jones has a contract possibility of playing in 2013, but it seems likely that this will be his swan song. Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees is another player who we could be seeing for the last time...
Via The Flagrant Fan
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January 11, 2012
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January 11, 2012
MLB Rumor: Mariano Rivera to Decide Retirement Plans Before End of Spring Training
Mariano Rivera will decide before the end of Spring Training about his retirement plans. This comes on the heels of long time teammate Jorge Posada's decision to retire.New York Yankees legendary closer Mariano Rivera told the Star Ledger that he will make a decision before the end of Spring Training whether he will seek another contract or retire at the end of the 2012 season. Rivera...
Via MyTeamRivals.com
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January 09, 2012
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January 09, 2012
Rivera will decide on retirement by spring training
Just on the heels of Jorge Posada‘s retirement announcement, the 42-year-old Mariano Rivera told reporters that he will decide if he will play past 2012 by this spring training, although he would not reveal which way he was leaning, according to Marc Carig of the Newark Star-Ledger.
Rivera is on the final year of a two-year $30 million contract and based on his age, it seemed...
Via Bronx Baseball Daily
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January 09, 2012
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January 09, 2012
Mariano Rivera: Thinking Man’s Cutter
Mariano Rivera’s cutter is the most dominant pitch in the game today, if not one of the best ever. Baseball’s all-time saves leader has carved out a brilliant career with his signature offering, sawing off a lumberyard’s worth of bats along the way. Hitters know it’s coming, but rarely can they square it up.
When a pitcher possesses such a weapon, it is easy to assume that...
Via Fangraphs
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December 28, 2011
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December 28, 2011
Yankees 2011 Season in Review: Mariano Rivera
What is there to say about Mariano Rivera? I often refer to him as God because of his dominance off the field and the way he lives his life and helps others off the field. And because at the age of 41, he is still as good an as consistent as ever. In the future it’ll be the other way around though – people will refer to God as Mo.
EXPECTATIONS: He turned 41 at the...
Via Bronx Baseball Daily
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December 12, 2011
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December 12, 2011
CUT THROAT
Mariano Rivera to have surgery
The greatest closer of all-time has to have polyps on his vocal cords removed and has announced that he will have the surgery on Friday.
Via Hall of Very Good
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December 01, 2011
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December 01, 2011
Mariano Rivera Needs Vocal Chord Surgery
Mariano Rivera told Anthony McCarron of the NY Daily News that he needs surgery on his vocal chords that have been bothering him for about a month.
Aaron Gleeman of HardballTalk said that it’s a sign that he is human after all. I think that it is just further evidence that he is God. We have had the privileged of hearing him speak this entire time and have taken it for granted...
Via Bronx Baseball Daily
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November 22, 2011
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November 22, 2011
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