The bad news is that Andruw Jones will have to wait at least one more year. The good news is that he is on a path similar to the one traveled by former Braves closer Billy Wagner, one of the baseball’s new Hall of Famers.
Andruw Jones continues to be a compelling candidate for the Hall of Fame, and his ex-teammate, Chipper Jones, says it's time for Andruw to be inducted.
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The results of the BBWAA portion of voting for the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame class were revealed on Tuesday night. Here at CBS Sports, we've spent the past two-plus months breaking it down, so let's put a bow on the 2025 ballot and look forward to what the results mean for 2026 and beyond.
Ichiro Suzuki becomes the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of being a unanimous selection.
Other bits of intrigue ahead of Tuesday's 6 p.m. announcement: Will CC Sabathia be a first-ballot Hall of Famer, and is this the year Billy Wagner gets in?
Suzuki received 393 of 394 votes from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Sabathia was on 342 ballots and Wagner on 325, which was 29 more than the 296 needed for the required 75%.
Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner are the newest inductees to the National Baseball Hall of Fame as it revealed its Class of 2025.
A dive into Ryan Lewis' 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot and a discussion on the cases of Omar Vizquel, CC Sabathia and Manny Ramirez.
Wagner had a 1.98 earned run average and struck out 22 of the 56 batters he faced in his 15 games for the Red sox in 2009.
If Jones was one of the best players of his generation, he would have had serious support right from the start. Instead, he was basically ignored. How did he become worthy of Cooperstown in that short span of time?
Why are we even having this conversation? One absolutely worthless Baseball Writer of America decided not to put Seattle Mariners legend Ichiro Suzuki on his ba