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Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Perhaps the greatest injustice here is that one voter left Suzuki off his list, denying him unanimous entry! What a moran! That person should be ejected!
NEW YORK — In Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner, the Baseball Writers Association delivered quite an eclectic trifecta to Cooperstown on Tuesday.
The first Japanese player ever elected to the Hall of Fame, a reformed alcoholic, and an under-sized, under-rated strikeout artist from rural Virginia who finally made it in his last year on the ballot.
Undoubtedly, the main attraction at Cooperstown next July will be Ichiro, who missed by one vote of equaling Mariano Rivera’s perfection in 2017. He’s expected to draw record crowds from Japan, where he hit .353 in nine seasons before defecting to the U.S. with the Mariners in 2001 — and going on to hit .311 with 3,089 hits and 509 stolen bases for 19 seasons. In 2001 he became only the second player in history to win Rookie of the Year and MVP honors in the same season and three years later he broke Hall-of-Famer George Sisler’s long-standing all-time one-season hits record of 257 with 262.
But there also figures to be a good number of Yankee and Met fans making the trek to upstate New York to pay homage to Sabathia, the bulwark pitching ace of the Yankees’ last World Series team in 2009 with the most strikeouts (3,089) of any lefthander in history who was also on the ballot for the first time and got 86.8% — and the likewise popular Wagner, a two-time All-Star with the Mets whose 413 saves rank sixth all-time, who made it in with 82.5%. In addition, his a 2.31 ERA is the second lowest in the modern era for pitchers with 900 or more innings, behind only Rivera’s 2.21.
The first Japanese player ever elected to the Hall of Fame, a reformed alcoholic, and an under-sized, under-rated strikeout artist from rural Virginia who finally made it in his last year on the ballot.
Undoubtedly, the main attraction at Cooperstown next July will be Ichiro, who missed by one vote of equaling Mariano Rivera’s perfection in 2017. He’s expected to draw record crowds from Japan, where he hit .353 in nine seasons before defecting to the U.S. with the Mariners in 2001 — and going on to hit .311 with 3,089 hits and 509 stolen bases for 19 seasons. In 2001 he became only the second player in history to win Rookie of the Year and MVP honors in the same season and three years later he broke Hall-of-Famer George Sisler’s long-standing all-time one-season hits record of 257 with 262.
But there also figures to be a good number of Yankee and Met fans making the trek to upstate New York to pay homage to Sabathia, the bulwark pitching ace of the Yankees’ last World Series team in 2009 with the most strikeouts (3,089) of any lefthander in history who was also on the ballot for the first time and got 86.8% — and the likewise popular Wagner, a two-time All-Star with the Mets whose 413 saves rank sixth all-time, who made it in with 82.5%. In addition, his a 2.31 ERA is the second lowest in the modern era for pitchers with 900 or more innings, behind only Rivera’s 2.21.
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/bill-madden-ichiro-suzuki-cc-004600087.html