Ichiro Suzuki became the 1st Japanese player to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, joining Sabathia Wagner.

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, narrowly missing Tuesday’s election along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.

Suzuki received 393 out of 394 votes from the Baseball Writers Association of America. Sabathia with 342 votes and Wagner with 325, which is 29 more than the 296 needed for the 75 percent needed.

Sabathia and Suzuki were selected for the first time in the draft. Wagner made it on his 10th and final attempt.

The trio will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown on July 27 along with Dave Parker and Dick Allen, who were voted in by the All-Time Committee last month.

Mariano Rivera is the only player to receive 100 percent of the vote from the BBWAA in 2019, appearing on all 425 ballots. Derek Jeter was picked 395 out of 396 in 2020.

Carlos Beltran lost 19 votes with 70.3 percent, which is 57.1 percent last year and 46.5 percent in 2023 for the first time in the election. He was followed by Andrew Jones at 261 for 66.2 percent, up from 61.6 percent last year and 7.3 percent in his 2018 debut.

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Suzuki came to Major League Baseball from Japan in 2001 at the age of 27 and joined Fred Lynn in 1975 as the only players to win Rookie of the Year and MVP in the same season. He 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), hitting with the New York Yankees (2012- 14) and Miami (2015-17).

He is perhaps the all-time leading hitter in Nippon Professional Baseball and 3,089 in MLB, including a season-high 262 in 2011.

Sabathia was a six-time All-Star, winning the 2007 AL Cy Young Award and a World Series title in 2009. He went 251-161 with a 3.74 ERA and 3,093 strikeouts, third behind Randy Johnson and Steve Carlton in left field. 19 seasons with Cleveland (2001-08), Milwaukee (2008) and New York Yankees (2009-19)

Wagner 284 to 73.8 percent of the 2024 ballot, five votes shy, with third baseman Adrian Beltre, catcher/first baseman Joe Moyer and first baseman Todd Helton selected. Wagner When it first appeared in 2016, it received 10.5 percent support.

He became the ninth pitcher in the Hall primarily in relief — the first left-hander among them — after Hoyt Wilhelm, Rollie Fingers, Dennis Eckerley, Bruce Sutter, Goose Gossage, Trevor Hoffman, Lee Smith and Rivera.

A seven-time All-Star, Wagner is 47-40 with a 2.31 ERA and 422 saves for Houston (1995-2003), Philadelphia (2004-05), New York Mets (2006-09), Boston (2009) and Atlanta (2010) with his 11.9 strikeouts. Most among pitchers with at least 900 innings They are, although his 903 career innings are the fewest among Hall of Famers.

Chase Utley came in sixth with 157 votes and 39.8 percent.

Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez are soundly late, affected by doping bans. Rodriguez shot 37.1 percent in the fourth, up from 34.8 percent, and Ramirez shot 34.3 percent in the ninth, up from 32.5 percent.

Andy Pettit received 110 votes and 27.9 percent of the vote in his seventh term, more than double his 13.5 percent last year. Felix Hernandez received 81 votes and 20.6 percent of the vote in the first ballot.

The players included 278 of the 351 elected Hall of Famers, 142 on the BBWAA ballot, and 62 of those were elected in their first year of eligibility.

Carlos Gonzalez, Curtis Granderson, Adam Jones, Ian Kinsler, Russell Martin, Brian McCann, Hanley Ramirez, Fernando Rodney, Troy Tulowitzki and Ben Zobrist will be eliminated in the future after receiving less than 5 percent.

Cole Hamels, Ryan Braun and Matt Kemp will join the ballot next year.