Members of the baseball neighborhood proceed to share reactions of shock, disappointment and anger associated to the truth that Seattle Mariners legend Ichiro Suzuki ended up one vote shy of turning into the second participant in historical past to be unanimously elected into the Baseball Corridor of Fame.
Fellow Corridor of Famer and former New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter, named on all however one poll again in 2020, is aware of just a little about what Suzuki skilled this week.
“Lots of gamers have been unbelievable which might be within the Corridor of Fame and haven’t gotten 100% of the vote,” Jeter lately informed Ryan Morik of Fox Information. “I by no means anticipated it, and I’d by no means sit right here and say everybody ought to’ve voted for me or everybody ought to have voted for Ichiro. The one factor I do assume is honest is that I feel loads of members of the media need athletes to be accountable and accountable; I feel they need to do the identical factor. I get requested this query. I get uninterested in being requested this query, and I feel they need to reply it.”
As of late Friday morning, NBC Information’ Kimmy Yam reported that the identification of the lone particular person who did not vote for Ichiro was unknown.
The MLB website notes that Ichiro’s 4,367 skilled hits, together with his time in Japan, stay probably the most of any participant in baseball historical past. A 10-time MLB All-Star, Ichiro earned 10 Gold Glove Awards and was named the 2001 American League Rookie of the 12 months and the 2001 AL Most Beneficial Participant. Other than the quite a few stats that present he deserved to be a unanimous Corridor of Fame inductee, Ichiro will without end be credited for paving the best way for future Japanese stars to comply with in his footsteps.
Per Alex Rubinson of The Related Press, Ichiro laughed in regards to the single Corridor of Fame snub throughout an occasion on Thursday.
“There’s one author that I wasn’t in a position to get a vote from,” Ichiro mentioned by way of a translator. “I wish to invite him over to my home, and we’ll have a drink collectively and we’ll have chat.”
Iconic Yankees nearer Mariano Rivera is the one participant to be a unanimous Corridor of Fame choice.
