earning an overwhelming 99.7% of votes on his first ballot. It places him narrowly behind Derek Jeter (2020) and Mariano Rivera (2019) in Hall of Fame voting percentages. Rivera remains the only ...

2025 is particularly special though, because Ichiro Suzuki received an astounding 99.7% of the possible ... unanimous Hall of Fame selection (Mariano Rivera, 2019). Only Derek Jeter (2020) has ...

Even if you don’t know baseball, you’ve probably heard of Ichiro, the way that many non-sports fans still know Babe Ruth or ...

The identity of the writer has not been revealed and may never be. BBWAA members who vote for the Hall of Fame have to be in ...

Mariano Rivera may soon have some company ... Ken Griffey Jr. has the third-highest percentage, at 99.3 percent in 2016. For Ichiro, it would be another recent honor, as the outfielder was ...

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.

There have been a plethora of names to enter into the Hall of Fame, but there is only one that was a unanimous selection — Mariano Rivera ... giving him a 99.74% vote. Outfielder Ken Griffey ...

receiving 99.7% of the vote after 394 baseball writers sent in ballots. It's the same total Derek Jeter received when he was one vote shy of unanimous selection in 2020. Mariano Rivera remains the ...

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 ...

Ichiro Suzuki has been named to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the possible vote. Here are the best reactions from around the internet.

The one voter who didn’t vote for Suzuki prevented him from joining Yankee closer Mariano Rivera as the second player ... Ken Griffey Jr. 99.3%, Tom Seaver 98.8%, Nolan Ryan 98.8%, Cal Ripken ...

His 99.7% vote percentage was tied with Derek Jeter for the second-highest in history, trailing only Mariano Rivera, the only unanimous selection. Advertisement Sabathia received 342 (86.8% ...