Mariano Rivera needs just one more perfect inning.

To finish his career with a WHIP under 1.

He currently has a combined hits/walks total of 1284 in 1283.2 innings.

From here:

Pretty cool. I hope it happens.

Well he should get 1 more inning in Houston and he may well get his 1st inning in Center Field in one of these last 3 games. I hope he gets both.

To put it another way, if he faces one more batter and retires him, he’ll have a career WHIP of exactly 1. I don’t think it’s going to happen, though. They let Robertson get the save tonight, and after last night an appearance in a meaningless game against the Astros might be an anticlimax. I think this is how things ended for Ted Williams, too: he homered in his last home at-bat and then rode the pine for a couple of road games.

He won’t pitch again and won’t play the outfield either. Which seems like a good thing since he hurt himself so badly in the outfield last year. So he’ll have a career WHIP of … I guess it depends on how you calculate it, but I think YES said 1.001.

Williams homered in Boston’s last home game and did not accompany the team on its final road trip for a 3-game series in New York.

To my mind, it ain’t the career saves or the WHIP. It’s his career postseason line.

96 games pitched, 141 innings, and a 0.70 ERA. In those 141 innings he gave up two home runs (to Sandy Alomar Jr. and Jay Payton, just to give you a trivia answer.)

So basically Mariano Rivera’s playoff performance is itself the greatest season a relief pitcher has ever had.

Actually, he just needs 2 outs, not a full inning.

And when you factor out the 10 horrendous starts in his first season, his lifetime ratios are a 2.057 ERA and a 0.892 WHIP. Of course, that’s not how it works - but it does show what a ridiculously amazing reliever he was.

Really, I can’t imagine why he’s retiring, except that perhaps there is a better league somewhere. He was pretty much just as awesome this year as he ever is. If he wanted to he could probably keep pitching like this until he’s 50.

I think he was just ready to go. And in that article he does make it sound like his body was giving out on him even though it didn’t look that way very often. There were one or two uncharacteristic rough patches but he still had a solid year.

Really i imagine his ratting well done.