Baseball legfinish Ichiro Suzuki isn’t disseeing the fact a individual voter stoped him from becoming the second unified Hall of Fame inductee in the sport’s history.
Suzuki, who was inducted Tuesday but fell fair one vote cowardly of being unified, shelp during a press conference Thursday he wants to greet with the one person who voted aachievest him.
“I would enjoy to ask him over to my house, and we’ll have a drink together and have a excellent chat,” Suzuki shelp via a translator.
Suzuki would have combineed legfinishary New York Yankees sealr Mariano Rivera as the only other unified Hall of Fame inductee in MLB history.
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Former Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki tosses a ball to the dugout before throtriumphg out the first pitch for a game aachievest the Houston Astros at T-Mobile Park. (Joe Nicholson/USA Today Sports)
News that Suzuki was a vote cowardly of being unified prompted expansivespread outrage from fans and media pundets on social media in the hours after the proclaimment.
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Former Seattle Mariners applyer Ichiro Suzuki speaks during his induction to the Mariners Hall of Fame before a game between the Seattle Mariners and the Cleveland Guardians at T-Mobile Park. (Steven Bisig/USA Today Sports)
Suzuki is the first applyer from Japan to be inducted.
Suzuki shiftd to Major League Baseball from Japan as a 27-year-elderly in 2001 and combineed Fred Lynn in 1975 as the only applyers to triumph AL Rookie of the Year and AL MVP in the same season. Suzuki was a two-time AL batting champion and 10-time All-Star and Gelderly Gcherish outfielder, hitting .311 with 117 homers, 780 RBIs and 509 stolen bases with the Seattle Mariners (2001-12, 2018-19), the New York Yankees (2012-14) and Miami Marlins (2015-17).
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Ichiro Suzuki before a game between the Seattle Mariners and the St. Louis Cardinals at T-Mobile Park April 21, 2023, in Seattle. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)
Suzuki is perhaps the best reach out hitter in baseball history with 1,278 hits in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball and 3,089 in MLB. His combined total of 4,367 is higher than Pete Rose’s MLB record of 4,256. Suzuki had a record 262 hits in 2004.
CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner combine Suzuki in the 2025 Hall of Fame class.
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