Closer (baseball)

Closer - baseball or softball relief pitcher who specializes in finishing games. Article “Closer (baseball)” in English Wikipedia has 71.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 65 references and 12 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Closer (baseball)”, its content was written by 150 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 234 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 999 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2463 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #17937 in June 2007
• Global: #50787 in March 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #63489 in June 2010
• Global: #103183 in June 2010

There are 6 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Closer (baseball)		71.2657
2	Japanese (ja) 抑え投手		36.8819
3	Chinese (zh) 終結者 (棒球)		34.4991
4	Dutch (nl) Closer (honkbal)		23.8165
5	Korean (ko) 마무리 투수		7.7918
6	French (fr) Stoppeur (baseball)		7.6642

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Closer (baseball)" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Closer (baseball)		926 132
2	Chinese (zh) 終結者 (棒球)		168 906
3	Japanese (ja) 抑え投手		57 084
4	Korean (ko) 마무리 투수		34 249
5	French (fr) Stoppeur (baseball)		20 952
6	Dutch (nl) Closer (honkbal)		759

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Closer (baseball)" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Closer (baseball)		2 365
2	Japanese (ja) 抑え投手		953
3	Chinese (zh) 終結者 (棒球)		642
4	Korean (ko) 마무리 투수		95
5	French (fr) Stoppeur (baseball)		32
6	Dutch (nl) Closer (honkbal)		17

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Closer (baseball)" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Closer (baseball)		150
2	Chinese (zh) 終結者 (棒球)		39
3	French (fr) Stoppeur (baseball)		16
4	Korean (ko) 마무리 투수		13
5	Japanese (ja) 抑え投手		12
6	Dutch (nl) Closer (honkbal)		4

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Closer (baseball)" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Japanese (ja) 抑え投手		1
2	Korean (ko) 마무리 투수		1
3	Chinese (zh) 終結者 (棒球)		1
4	English (en) Closer (baseball)		0
5	French (fr) Stoppeur (baseball)		0
6	Dutch (nl) Closer (honkbal)		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Closer (baseball)" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Closer (baseball)		999
2	Japanese (ja) 抑え投手		471
3	Korean (ko) 마무리 투수		443
4	French (fr) Stoppeur (baseball)		343
5	Chinese (zh) 終結者 (棒球)		204
6	Dutch (nl) Closer (honkbal)		3

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#	Language	Value
en	English Closer (baseball)
fr	French Stoppeur (baseball)
ja	Japanese 抑え投手
ko	Korean 마무리 투수
nl	Dutch Closer (honkbal)
zh	Chinese 終結者 (棒球)

Best Rank

English: #63489 06.2010

Global: #103183 06.2010

Best Rank

English: #17937 06.2007

Global: #50787 03.2004

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