NEW YORK – The Corridor of Fame voter who declined to pick out Ichiro Suzuki stays a thriller.
All 321 voters who allowed their ballots to be made public Tuesday by the Baseball Writers’ Affiliation of America chosen the Japanese star. Suzuki appeared on 393 of 394 ballots when voting was introduced on Jan. 21.
“There’s one author that I wasn’t in a position to get a vote from,” he mentioned by a translator later that week. “I wish to invite him over to my home, and we’ll have a drink collectively, and we’ll have a superb chat.”
The Corridor’s guidelines permit every voter the selection whether or not to make a poll public. The BBWAA voted 80-19 at its December 2016 assembly to suggest making all ballots public, however the Corridor of Fame’s board of administrators determined to depart the choice as much as every voter.
Mariano Rivera stays the one participant to get 100% of the vote from the BBWAA, showing on all 425 ballots in 2019. Derek Jeter was chosen on 395 of 396 in 2020.
Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner had been elected by the BBWAA this 12 months and shall be inducted into the Corridor at Cooperstown on July 27 together with Dave Parker and Dick Allen, voted in by the basic period committee in December.
Suzuki was a two-time AL batting champion and 10-time All-Star and Gold Glove outfielder, hitting .311 with 117 homers, 780 RBIs and 509 stolen bases with Seattle (2001-12, 2018-19), the New York Yankees (2012-14) and Miami (2015-17).
He’s maybe one of the best contact hitter ever, with 1,278 hits in Nippon Skilled Baseball and three,089 in MLB, together with a season-record 262 in 2004. His mixed complete of 4,367 exceeds Pete Rose’s MLB report of 4,256.
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