Yankees' star Mariano Rivera redefined greatness with his legendary cutter, which helped cement his place as baseball’s greatest closer ever.

Mariano Rivera was the greatest regular-season reliever of all time and the greatest postseason reliever of all time. That's why he's a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Simple enough. But Bill James' old ...

Mariano Rivera Tuesday delivered perhaps one of his best pitches -- a sales pitch for his autobiography -- in which he criticized former teammate Robinson Cano. In Rivera's memoir, "The Closer,'' ...

His dominance on the mound helped fuel one of the most sustained runs of excellence in modern sports, turning ninth innings into inevitabilities and championships into expectations (especially in New ...