Mariano Rivera Highlights

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10/17/10, "The wild card is Rivera, who probably shouldn't be anywhere near as good as he has been at age 40, converting 33 of 38 chances for New York while owning a 1.80 ERA in 61 appearances."...

• (He also completed 2 saves in 1 day on 5/26/10, which isn't reported. This was the 6th time he's had 2 saves in one day in his career. On official records, 5/26's earlier game is listed as a 5/25 game, but only 6 innings were played. The final 3 innings were on 5/26 with Rivera along with the regularly scheduled 5/26 game.) ed.
  

(continuing): "It's incredible," general manager Brian Cashman said. "I know for years people have been waiting for it to stop, and thank God it hasn't.

• He's been the biggest reason we've been successful. Closers don't last this long. They don't do the things he does.
  

• Obviously, you're never going to see anything like this again."...

"I can't even understand why you would ask. Mariano is amazing," Posada said. "Mariano is, for me,

• the reason why we are in this situation and the reason why we keep being in this situation.
  

• There's not another Mariano and there is never going to be another Mariano.""

• from MLB.com, "Core Four makes point to enjoy the ride," by B. Hoch

Sheldon Ocker is one of 6 MLB/BBWAA selected voters who

• left Rivera's name off their 2005 AL Cy Young ballot.

NY Times 11/9/05 article, "Award Eludes Rivera, Colon wins the Cy Young"

• Sheldon Ocker's statement about Rivera in the title of this post is from the NY Times article. As I post this, it's at the end of the article, though that hasn't always been the case.

For a long period of time Ocker's statement was excised from the article. Now it's back. I've documented this elsewhere which I'll link to here shortly. ed.

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