Éric Gagné

Éric Gagné is one of those pitchers who had a stretch so dominant it almost doesn't seem real looking back. The guy from Montreal came up as a starter with the Dodgers, then transformed into arguably the most unhittable closer in baseball during the early 2000s. His consecutive saves streak — 84 in a row — is still the MLB record, and the numbers he put up from 2002 to 2004 were just absurd: a 2003 Cy Young Award for a closer, which tells you everything about how otherworldly he was. The dark goggles, the blasting entrance music, the pure nastiness of that curveball — he made closing look like performance art. Injuries eventually derailed the magic, which made it all feel more bittersweet, but that peak run with the Dodgers? Genuinely one of the great stretches of bullpen dominance I can remember.

Name (English)

Éric Gagné

Name (Japanese)

エリック・ガニエ

Reading

えりっく・がにえ

Born

January 7, 1976 (age 50)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Dragon

Origin

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Occupation

baseball player

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AC%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A8

Tags

• Quebec
• baseball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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