The former Mariners superstar was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote (named on all but one ballot) and will be enshrined this coming July. He'll also have his No. 51 retired by the Mariners in a ceremony this summer.

National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee will kick off the season for the team he spent most of his career with.

For Ichiro Suzuki, whose baseball career defied convention and shattered records, his induction into the Hall of Fame has long felt less like a crowning achievement and more like an inevitable conclusion to one of the sport’s most remarkable journeys.

Ichiro Suzuki will have a Seattle Mariners logo on the cap of his Hall of Fame plaque, CC Sabathia will take the New York Yankees logo and Billy Wagner will have the symbol of the Houston Astros.