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New BB Hall of Fame members

#1 Post by Vandal » Tue Jan 21, 2025 6:04 pm

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner into Baseball Hall of Fame

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese-born player to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous selection, and he'll be joined in the Class of 2025 by starting pitcher CC Sabathia and closer Billy Wagner.

Suzuki, who got 393 of 394 votes in balloting of the Baseball Writers Association of America, would have joined Yankees great Mariano Rivera (2019) as the only unanimous selections. Instead, Suzuki's 99.746% of the vote is second only to Derek Jeter's 99.748% (396 of 397 ballots cast in 2020) as the highest plurality for a position player in Hall of Fame voting, per the BBWAA.

"There was a time when I didn't even get a chance to play in the MLB," Suzuki told MLB TV. "So what an honor it is to be for me to be here and be a Hall of Famer."

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/435 ... -hall-fame
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