Among the newest players in the baseball world, Ichiro Suzuki did not have one more vote until the unanimous election, but this has happened only once in history.
At a press conference held on Thursday in Coopers Town, the first Japanese Hall of Fame players joked about the only member who did not include himself in the US Baseball Press Association’s 2025 ballot.
“I was able to get a lot of votes from the writers. Thanks to them,” Suzuki said through an interpreter. “There is one writer who couldn’t get a voting. I would like to invite him to my house and drink together while drinking together.”
Suzuki made his major league debut in 2001 and won the American League MVP and the rookie king. Suzuki scored 3,089 hits in the 19 seasons in Mariners, Yankees and Marlins and won 10 Gold Grab Awards.
“I’ve been in the Hall of Fame as a player, but I’m very honored to be able to enter the Hall of Fame,” Suzuki said in Coopers Town on Thursday.
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Only Mariano Rivera was unanimously joined the Hall of Fame in 2019, and in 2020, Derek Jitter was elected by one vote.
