By JOEL SHERMAN

Many players around the sport wore No. 42 yesterday in a worthy tribute to Jackie Robinson. Today just one player will still be wearing No. 42, and let’s celebrate Mariano Rivera a little bit. We see older closers such as Joe Borowski and Trevor Hoffman fade and/or lose a good dose of their stuff. Yet here is Rivera, age 38, just about the same as ever. He remains about the three Cs: Cool, calm and cutters.

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