Ichiro Suzuki said he wants to meet with the one person who voted against his induction into the Hall of Fame after he fell one vote shy of being unanimous.
Other bits of intrigue ahead of Tuesday's 6 p.m. announcement: Will CC Sabathia be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, and is this the year Billy Wagner gets in?
Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki fell one vote short from becoming a unanimous inductee into the Hall of Fame and just wants to grab a drink with the writer.
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.
Ichiro Suzuki came up one vote shy of becoming the second player to be unanimously voted into the Hall of Fame, prompting a social media uproar.
Ichiro Suzuki is heading to the Hall of Fame - but he fell one vote short of history. The Japanese outfielder is one of three players announced Tuesday as part of the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame class.
Ichiro Suzuki was among the few Japanese players who transitioned well from Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball to Major League Baseball.
Fellow Hall of Famer Derek Jeter, named on all but one ballot back in 2020, knows a little about what Ichiro experienced this week.
Players are elected to the Hall of Fame provided they are named on at least 75% of ballots cast by eligible voting members of the BBWAA. With 394 ballots submitted in the 2025 election, candidates needed to receive 296 votes to be elected.
Ichiro Suzuki could become the first Japanese player in baseball’s Hall of Fame, and CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner and Carlos Beltrán also could be elected when results of the writers’ voting are announced.
Legendary MLB star Ichiro Suzuki was tapped for the Baseball Hall of Fame on Tuesday, but somehow, despite a stunning 19 seasons in the major leagues, his election was not unanimous. That there was a lone holdout shocked the MLB world; if not Ichiro, then who?
In Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner, the Baseball Writers Association delivered quite an eclectic trifecta to Cooperstown on Tuesday. The first Japanese player ever elected to the Hall of Fame, a reformed alcoholic, and an under-sized, under-rated strikeout artist from rural Virginia who finally made it in his last year on the ballot.