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The National Baseball Hall of Fame volition person 3 much plaques this summer.
Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner were each fixed the sport's highest grant connected Tuesday and are headed to Cooperstown.
Ichiro is the archetypal Japanese-born subordinate to person Hall of Fame honors. He received 99.7% of the vote, 1 ballot shy of becoming the 2nd subordinate unanimously voted. Players request astatine slightest 75% of the ballot to beryllium elected.
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Ichiro joined the majors successful 2001 arsenic a highly-touted Japanese prospect, hitting .353 during his 9 seasons playing successful his location state wherever helium won 3 MVPs and was a seven-time All-Star. Joining the Seattle 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.
From 2001 to 2010, Ichiro was named an All-Star successful each play portion besides winning a Gold Glove Award each time. In that span, helium earned 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-straight 200-plus deed seasons. He besides stole implicit 500 bases and is 1 of conscionable 7 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 live-ball 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 successful 10 consecutive years. Ichiro spent the bulk of his vocation with the Mariners, having pit stops with the Yankees and Marlins.
Sabathia, similar Ichiro, got the nod successful his archetypal twelvemonth connected the ballot. He is 1 of conscionable 19 pitchers to grounds 3,000 strikeouts and dominated the 2000s. From 2007 to 2011, helium finished successful the top-five of Cy Young Award voting each year, winning the grant successful 2007. One of those seasons, though, was the 2008 run erstwhile helium finished successful 5th successful the NL ballot contempt being trading from Cleveland successful the American League to the National League’s Brewers successful July. But, during his abbreviated stint with Milwaukee (17 starts), helium threw 7 implicit games and pitched to a 1.65 ERA, with plentifulness of his enactment coming connected three-day remainder arsenic the Brewers made a postseason push.
The lefty won a World Series with the Yankees successful 2009, successful his archetypal play connected what was past the largest declaration ever fixed to a pitcher. He struggled from 2013 to 2015, pitching to a 4.81 ERA arsenic his alcoholism had go a detriment to his vocation and life. After rehab, though, helium re-invented himself arsenic a finesse pitcher and recorded 3 much seasons of sub-4.00 ERA. In all, helium retired aft the 2019 play with a 3.74 vocation ERA, 3,093 strikeouts, 251 wins, and six All-Stars. On the last transportation of his MLB career, helium dislocated his shoulder, and helium quipped that helium pitched until helium nary longer could.
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Wagner got the motion connected his last twelvemonth of eligibility aft coming up conscionable 5 votes abbreviated past year. And portion helium adjacent admitted it's been a "nightmare" to wait, his numbers surely shriek that he's deserving of the honor.
Since 1920, among relievers with 500-plus innings, his 11.9 strikeouts per 9 innings are the fourth-most successful MLB history. His 422 saves are the seventh-most, portion his 2.31 ERA is second, down lone Mariano Rivera. Wagner was elite from commencement to decorativeness – successful fact, his lowest ERA successful a play came successful his last one, erstwhile helium posted a 1.43 ERA successful 2010. He besides has the highest strikeout complaint and lowest batting mean against among pitchers with 900-plus innings.
Spending clip with the Astros, Phillies, Mets, Red Sox, and Braves, Wagner was a seven-time All-Star and doubly received Cy Young Award votes. Sabathia got 86.6% of the vote, portion Wagner received 82.5%.
Dave Parker and Dick Allen were elected past period by the classical epoch committee, and the 5 of them unneurotic volition beryllium enshrined this summer.
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