A look back at Billy Wagner’s Red Sox season

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images Congrats are in order for Billy Wagner, a new inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Unlike Ichiro and CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner had a stint with the Red Sox, pitching for them during the 2009 season. How good was that season compared to his others? Is he really a Red Sox legend, as the kids like to say? Time to take a deep-dive into the stats and find out. (Fun fact: We had John Smoltz that year too!)

Let me state, for the record, that I was 9 years old during that season and I have zero recollection of him pitching for the team that year. Part of this is because the Sox claimed him off waivers in late August and he was really only with the team for a month.…