The Baseball Writers Association of America have cast their votes and on January 21, 2025, the newest class to the National Baseball Hall of Fame are revealed.
Later this summer the newest inductees will travel to the central New York town of Cooperstown for the official induction ceremony.
Currently there are 21 players in the Hall of Fame who were born outside of the United States. With Ichiro Suzuki a part of the lists of finalists in his first year of eligibility, that number may change. If he gets name to the Hall of Fame, Ichiro will be the first player born in Japan to become a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
A total of 28 players made the list of finalists for The Hall with half of them making the list for the first time.
The finalists making a return to the list:
Billy Wagner – his 10th and final attempt – missed by five votes last year
Andruw Jones
Carlos Beltran
Alex Rodriguez
Manny Ramirez
Chase Utley
Omar Vizquel
Bobby Abreu
Jimmy Rollins
Andy Pettitte
Mark Buehrle
Francisco Rodriguez
Torii Hunter
David Wright
The players making the list for the first itme:
Carlos Gonzalez
Curtis Granderson
Felix Hernandez
Adam Jones
Ian Kinsler
Russell Martin
Brian McCann
Dustin Pedroia
Hanley Ramirez
Fernando Rodney
CC Sabathia
Ichiro Suzuki
Troy Tulowitzki
Ben Zobrist
A player must earn 75 percent of the vote in order to be elected to the Hall of Fame.
The newest class of Hall of Famers will be officially inducted on July 27 in Cooperstown.
The first player to be inducted into the 2025 class of the National Baseball Hall of Fame is…
10 time All Star and 10 time gold glover Ichiro Suzuki who won the Rookie and MVP of the Year in the American League in his first year of play. He becomes the first player born in Japan to be elected into the Hall of Fame. Suzuki missed a unanimous vote by one vote.
He is joined by…
CC Sabathia
Billy Wagner