Ichiro Suzuki is a first fame hall of the package.
This has long been speculation among baseball enthusiasts regarding the Japanese Voltigger who played most of his 19-year MLB career with the Seattle Mariners. On Tuesday, this speculation has become reality, Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner chosen through the Baseball Writers’ Association. From America to inscribe themselves in the elegiac era, enthusiasts Dave Parker and Dick Allen as an elegance of the 2025 Famend Temple. They will be inducted in Cooperstown on July 27.
Star 10 times, Suzuki did not sign up for the leader of all the MLB, Mariano Rivera, as the only Unanimous teams. It didn’t fall short.
Suzuki spent nine seasons in Japanese professional baseball before joining MLB and the sailors in 2001. While the Japanese pitcher Hideo nomo a star for the dodgers in the 1990s, Suzuki, the first Japanese position player to enjoy this Success point.
During his first season, Susuki won the American League MVP and Draft of the Year, adjusting the player’s timing to win those awards from the same season. He also earned the name AL Batting that year, as well as in 2004. By the time his playing career ended, Suzuki had collected 4,367 strokes as a professional, adding 3,089 in MLB.
Last week, Suzuki is the seventh enthronement of the first tank in the Japanese baseball family in Tokyo.
Although Suzuki is the first Japanese player immortalized in Cooperstown, it will not be the last. It is inevitable that the superstar of the Dodgers Shhehei Ohtani is also faithful one day.
Ohtani recently won his third MVP in just seven seasons. At age 30, the former Angels Two-Lane player also made the playoffs for the first time and a World Series champion after signing a $10 million contract with the Dodgers.
Last season, Ohtani replaced Suzuki in MLB Records as a player born in Japanese through the maximum stolen bases of a season (59 for Ohtani, 56 for Suzuki in 2001). Ohtani also ended with 54 circuits, marking the first time a player reached 50 circuits and stole 50 bases in the same season.
“He is what I appreciate and appreciate,” Ohtani said through the interpreter Will Ireton after matching the Ichiro logo in September.
Suzuki and Ohtani were never given to the diamond percentage as MLB players, with Suzuki moving into an office role with the Mariners on the eve of a series opposite the Ohtani Angels’ rookie year in 2018.
“You can’t even compare me with him because he is doing anything that has an effect in Japan or here, however, in the total world,” Suzuki said about Ohtani forward of this series.
Suzuki also might be joined one day in the Hall of Fame by Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, who was born in Naha, Okinawa, Japan, and has led L.A. to two World Series championships and eight National League West titles in his nine years.
In addition to Ohtani, the Dodgers present two other Japanese players Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki.
“He is a legend of the franchise. I’m happy to have done the same as him,” Yamamoto said of Suzuki at the time. “Everyone looks up to him, and I’m one of those.”
In an interview in 2022, Sasaki named Suzuki as a baseball player he admires the most.
“I like the way he thinks, and the numbers that his career has set is so impressive,” Sasaki said. “So I’m a big fan of him. And I also appreciate how long a career has had. “
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