Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner have been voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2025.
Suzuki, who got 393 of 394 votes in balloting of the Baseball Writers\' Association of America, would have joined Mariano Rivera (2019) as the only unanimous selections. Suzuki\'s 99.746% of the vote is second only to Derek Jeter\'s 99.748% (396 of 397 ballots cast in 2020) as the highest plurality for a position player in Hall of Fame voting, per the BBWAA.
\"I don\'t think anybody in this whole world thought that I\'d be a Hall of Famer,\" Suzuki said. \"As a baseball player, this is the highest honor you can achieve.\"
Suzuki collected 2,542 of his 3,089 career hits as a member of the Seattle Mariners. Before that, he collected 1,278 hits in the Nippon Professional Baseball league in Japan, giving him more overall hits (4,367) than Pete Rose, MLB\'s all-time leader.
Sabathia, who was 251-161 with a 3.74 ERA, also was on the ballot for the first time, and he earned 86.8% of the vote.
Wagner retired with the eighth most saves in MLB history with 422.