Baseball Hall of Fame class will include five players. Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner will join Dick Allen and Dave Parker in Cooperstown this summer, the BB

Ichiro had more hits than anyone, while serving as a powerful precedent for Japanese players. That overshadows whether his Hall of Fame election was unanimous.

To this point, only famed Yankee closer Mariano Rivera has been elected to the Hall of Fame unanimously — not Babe Ruth, not Hank Aaron, not Ken Griffey Jr. nor Derek Jeter, just Rivera. Could Suzuki be the second?

The roles were reversed in the SnakePit Hall of Fame, with Ichiro managing to do what Mariano Rivera did not - be elected unanimously. [Rivera fell one vote short in the 2019 balloting] You won’t be surprised to hear that the only other player I’ve found who was named on every ballot was Randy Johnson on the 2015 ballot [disclaimer: the spreadsheets back in those days kinda sucked,