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It was each but guaranteed that Ichiro Suzuki would beryllium elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame Tuesday night. The lone question was whether his predetermination would beryllium unanimous.
He came up 1 ballot shy, receiving 99.7% of the vote aft 394 shot writers sent successful ballots.
It's the aforesaid full Derek Jeter received erstwhile helium was 1 ballot shy of unanimous enactment successful 2020.
Mariano Rivera remains the lone subordinate successful MLB past unanimously elected, receiving 100% of the ballot successful 2019.
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The voting has ever been suspect, but the reactions were not pleasant.
"Please measurement forward, you numbskull," New York Post writer and Hall of Fame elector Jon Heyman wrote connected X.
Added The Athletic writer Chris Kirschner, "So moronic."
San Francisco Chronicle writer Susan Slusser called the adjacent miss "upsetting."
Fellow Seattle Mariners fable Ken Griffey Jr. came up 3 votes shy successful 2016.
The bully quality for Ichiro, though, is that helium volition beryllium everlastingly enshrined successful Cooperstown this summertime and is the archetypal Japanese-born subordinate to beryllium elected to the Hall of Fame.
Ichiro joined the majors successful 2001 arsenic a highly touted Japanese prospect, hitting .353 during his 9 seasons successful his location country, wherever helium won 3 MVPs and was a seven-time All-Star. Joining the Mariners astatine property 28, helium instantly lived up to the hype, winning the AL MVP and helping that year’s Mariners squad to a grounds 116 wins.
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From 2001 to 2010, Ichiro was named an All-Star successful each play portion besides winning a Gold Glove Award each year. In that span, helium won 3 Silver Slugger Awards and 2 batting titles portion putting up a .331 mean and .806 OPS. In 2004, helium acceptable the all-time single-season grounds with 262 hits, and he’s the lone subordinate successful MLB past to registry 10 consecutive 200-plus deed seasons. He besides stole implicit 500 bases and is 1 of conscionable 7 players to grounds 3,000 hits and 500 stolen bases.
After conscionable his 11th MLB game, his vocation mean ne'er again dipped beneath .300. He retired with a .311 average, 3,089 hits, and a 60.0 WAR. In the unrecorded shot epoch (since 1920), helium is 1 of conscionable 21 players with astatine slightest 10 seasons of hitting .300 (among qualified hitters) and lone 1 of 7 to bash it 10 consecutive years. Ichiro spent the bulk of his vocation with the Mariners, making stops with the Yankees and Marlins.
Joining Ichiro successful this year's people are pitchers CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.
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