Ichiro Suzuki is on track to join Mariano Rivera as a unanimous Hall of Famer, with all ballots showing his name ahead of the final results.

Seattle: So, Ichiro Suzuki is about to make history! As of Monday, he’s got votes on every ballot that’s been made public. If this keeps up, he’ll be the first Japanese player in the Hall of Fame and just the second player ever to get in unanimously.
Can you believe it? He’d join Mariano Rivera, who was the first to do it back in 2019. Rivera got all 425 votes, while Derek Jeter just missed out by one vote. Ichiro’s also fresh off being elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame last week, but he didn’t get in unanimously there. He was on 92.6 percent of the ballots, probably because he only played nine seasons in Japan before heading to MLB in 2001.
In his 19 seasons in the majors, Ichiro racked up 3,089 hits. When you add the 1,278 hits he got in Japan, that’s a whopping 4,367 hits total, making him the all-time leader in professional baseball. Plus, he’s one of only seven players in MLB history to hit 3,000 and steal 500 bases. The other six are all in the Hall of Fame, too.
Ichiro led the majors in hits seven times, and among the first-timers on this year’s ballot, he and his former Yankees teammate CC Sabathia are the only ones likely to get in. Other ex-teammates like Felix Hernandez and Dustin Pedroia are struggling to get enough votes. It takes 75 percent to make it, and just 5 percent to stay on the ballot. Some former Yankees are in danger of not making the cut at all. What a wild ride for Ichiro!