One of these things is not like the other.

"He was saving games when most of the country was sleeping.

He was becoming one of the greatest closers in baseball history despite his own general manager refusing to watch him.

He was the West Coast version of Mariano Rivera."

Well, no.

The playoffs, and World Series in particular, separated Mariano from Hoffman and all others.


Trevor Hoffman's WS ERA is 9.00 (very limited sample size).

Mariano's WS ERA is 0.99 ... which is worse than his ALDS ERA and ALCS ERA.