If I did, I’d probably only hit .250.” He was either being modest, or he was off by 100 points. In Japan, Ichiro hit with elaborate mechanics often compared to a pendulum. As the pitcher began ...

It was all but guaranteed that Ichiro Suzuki would be elected to the ... only player in MLB history unanimously elected, receiving 100% of the vote in 2019. The voting has always been suspect ...

out-hit the league batting average by more than 100 points. (Aside: This is a hitter who, at age 35, came to the plate 678 times yet hit into only one double play all year.) Had Ichiro reached the ...

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player ... Suzuki’s teammate, Ken Griffey Jr., missed out on 100 percent by three votes. Whether he would receive a perfect score or merely an A+ was ...

CC Sabathia will be inducted into the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame and he will go in as a member of the New York Yankees. The ...

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 ...

Ichiro, and Griffey? At that stage, one would ask if there will ever be a player so great as to be clear in the eyes of the voting body that they are worthy of 100% selection. If not, fine.

only six position players have reached 100 career WAR: Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Rickey Henderson, Mike Schmidt, Albert Pujols and Joe Morgan. This suggests Ichiro belongs on that level of ...

There was a lot of attention being paid to Ichiro's vote total because he was at 100 percent on the publicly available ballots trickling out before the official results came out. When the final ...

Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman discuss the very deserving class of 2025, including why it’s not a big deal that Ichiro didn’t get 100% of the vote, Sabathia overcoming struggles with ...

Ichiro was elected easily, yes, by being named on 99.7% of ballots. However – bulletin forthcoming – 99.7% is not 100%, and thus Ichiro was not a unanimous choice. Framed another way ...