Baseball Hall of Fame 2025: Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia headline class with Yankees, Mets ties

Cooperstown is the destination of two more former Yankees.

On Tuesday, the Baseball Writers Association of America elected CC Sabathia and Ichiro Suzuki to the Hall of Fame. Enough votes were cast for Billy Wagner to complete the 2025 Hall of Fame class. MLB Network’s election show revealed the results.

Suzuki received 99.7% of the vote in the end. He was voted for by all but one qualified writer. Mariano Rivera, the renowned closer for the Yankees, is still the only player to have ever received a unanimous vote.

One of the greatest pure hitters in baseball history, the Japanese outfielder played for the Yankees for three seasons in the latter part of his remarkable 19-year career. Suzuki joined the elite 3,000-hit club despite not making his Major League debut until he was 27. Suzuki has 3,089 hits, which puts him 25th on MLB’s all-time hit list. If you add up Suzuki’s records from Nippon Professional Baseball prior to joining the major leagues in 2001 with the Mariners, that figure rises to an incredible 4,367.

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Sabathia is a first-ballot Hall of Famer, just like Suzuki. Eighty-six percent of authors favored the southpaw.

During his 19-year career with the Yankees, Cleveland, and Milwaukee, Sabathia was a workhorse and an ace. In his final season in 2019, he recorded his 11th Yankees uniform and became the 14th pitcher in MLB history to record both 250 career wins and 3,000 strikeouts, making him one of only three left-handers to do so. In 2009, his first season with the Yankees after agreeing to a record-breaking contract the winter before, Sabathia played a key role in the team’s most recent championship season.

In his tenth and last appearance on the ballot, Wagner finally made the cut, as players must receive 75 percent of the vote to be elected. The lefty appeared on 82.5 percent of ballots this time around, after missing that mark by only five votes the previous year.

The left-handed closer played four seasons with the Mets, but he spent the majority of his 16-year career with the Astros. With 422 saves, he is eighth on the all-time rankings.

Carlos Beltrán, a switch-hitting outfielder who was on the ballot for the Hall of Fame for the third time this year, was included on 70.3% of ballots, just missing the cut. Beltr had a jolt up to 57.1 percent a year ago after receiving only 46.5 percent in his first ballot appearance two years ago, so he is on track to make it next year.

Beltr n amassed some remarkable numbers over two decades in the major leagues with seven organizations, but his involvement in the 2017 Astros sign-stealing controversy will always be a stain on his legacy. 565 doubles, 312 stolen bases, 1,587 RBI, 1,582 runs, 435 home runs, and an amazing.307/.412/.609 postseason slash line were all delivered by Beltrn. Beltr spent seven seasons with the Mets and another seven with the Royals, making him a Yankee for portions of three seasons.

The next player to miss the cut this season was outfielder Andruw Jones, another former Yankee. As he has done each of his eight years on the ballot, he trended upward once more, reaching 66.2 percent of the vote.

These are the outcomes for each other player that played for the Yankees or Mets at some point in his career. Less than 5% of players are removed from consideration. To see the remaining voting for this year on the official BBWAA website, click here.

— Alex Rodriguez, fourth-year candidate, 37.1 percent

— Andy Pettitte: 7th year, 27.9 percent

— Sixth-year Bobby Abreu: 19.5%

— Third-year Francisco Rodriguez: 10.2 percent

— David Wright: 2nd year: 8.1 percent

— First-year Russell Martin: 2.3 percent

— First-year Brian McCann: 1.8%

— 1 percent Troy Tulowitzki, first year

— Curtis Granderson: first-year, 0.8 percent

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