All the rage and hand-wringing worked. It convinced one columnist how wrong he would be for not voting Mariano Rivera into the Hall of Fame.

Bill Ballou, who received almost unanimous scorn for publicly saying he would not vote for the legendary Yankees closer because he distrusts the save as “an indicator of greatness,” wrote a column explaining why he changed his mind.

The Telegram & Gazette (Mass.) writer initially was going to abstain from voting this year, but changed his mind.

“There was a lot of feedback, some of it from writers and observers whose voices are important, almost all of it saying I was wrong,” he wrote.

Ballou originally said he did not want to be the reason Rivera was not voted in unanimously. He also felt it was unfair to other candidates for him to not take part in the voting, and he couldn’t imagine writing a book about the history of baseball without including Rivera in it. He felt postseason performance — in which Rivera was legendary, putting up a 0.70 ERA in 141 innings — had to factor in.

“No baseball history would be complete without a serious mention of Rivera, of course, even if that mention is based upon a flawed statistic, the save,” he wrote.