Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner reached the necessary 75% support on the BBWAA Hall of Fame ballot revealed Tuesday. Complete results.
Former New York Yankees captain and five-time World Series champion Derek Jeter praised, applauded and voiced his admiration for former teammate CC Sabathia, after the latter's induction into the MLB
CC Sabathia has been inducted as one of the newest members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, with a 86.8% vote on his the first time of asking.
Baseball Hall of Fame class will include five players. Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner will join Dick Allen and Dave Parker in Cooperstown this summer, the BB
While Mariano Rivera remains the only Hall of Famer to be voted in unanimously by the Baseball Writers Association of America, Ichiro joins Derek Jeter (2020) as the inductees who were one vote shy of joining the longtime New York Yankees closer in that elite category.
At a Hall of Fame news conference, Ichiro joined the ranks of many people around the globe in wondering why he didn’t get that one vote.
There will be no wait for Suzuki, who will become the first Hall of Famer born in Japan and may become the first position player to earn unanimous election. New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, who received all 425 votes in 2019, is the only unanimous inductee.
Outfielders Dave Parker and the late Dick Allen, who were elected by the 16-member Classic ... Another longtime Yankees icon, Derek Jeter, came within one vote of unanimous election in 2020. Suzuki, Rivera and Jeter were teammates with New York from ...
The trio will be inducted into the Hall at Cooperstown on July 27 along with Dave Parker and Dick Allen ... appearing on all 425 ballots in 2019. Derek Jeter was chosen on 395 of 396 in 2020.
Only great Yankees All World reliever, Mariano Rivera, was unanimously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. That’s it. Nobody else. Both Babe Ruth, and Honus Wagner received 95.13% of the vote when they were elected to the Hall.
BBWAA secretary-treasurer Jack O’Connell recalled Suzuki was at the Hall in 2001 when he called to inform the Seattle star he had been voted AL Rookie of the Year. Suzuki received 27 of 28 first-place votes, all but one from an Ohio writer who selected Sabathia.
Ichiro Suzuki wants to raise a glass with the voter who chose not to check off his name on the Hall of Fame ballot.