Ichiro earned election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7 percent of the vote. The one voter who didn't vote for the Seattle Mariners legend will remain hidden.

Legendary former MLB outfielder Ichiro Suzuki fell one vote shy of being a unanimous first-ballot Hall of Famer, and the voter who denied him that

The singular BBWAA voter who snubbed Ichiro Suzuki for the Hall of Fame is still at large, and is likely to remain so after the organization's final release of ballots. Each Hall of Fame ballot comes with an option for the writer's votes to be publicly released after the results are announced,

There was no surprise when it was announced that Ichiro Suzuki would enter the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. What was a surprise, though, was that one baseball writer didn’t think Ichiro deserved first-ballot consideration.

Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki fell one vote short from becoming a unanimous inductee into the Hall of Fame and just wants to grab a drink with the writer.

The lone voter who snubbed Ichiro Suzuki on the 2025 Hall of Fame ballot remains anonymous. All 321 members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America who allowed their ballots to be made public on Tuesday voted for the Japanese outfielder.