Baseball Hall of Fame 2025 Class—Full List of Inductees
Another year, another wonderful class of inductees! This week the baseball realm welcomes their newest selection of talented players to be honored and immortalized for all time. The Baseball Hall of Fame 2025 Class included: Ichiro Suzuki (who is also the first Japanese-born player elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous selection); as well as starting pitcher CC Sabathia and closer Billy Wagner.
Getting back to Ichiro’s ALMOST unanimous selection. It’s crazy to think one voter messed up all the fun. Suzuki would of made history and it would have been extremely deserved.
Suzuki, who got 393 of 394 votes in balloting of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, would have joined Yankees great Mariano Rivera(2019) as the only unanimous selections. However, instead Suzuki’s 99.746% of the vote is second only to Derek Jeter’s 99.748% (396 of 397 ballots cast in 2020) as the highest plurality for a position player in Hall of Fame voting, per the BBWAA. So close, but no cigar.
Nevertheless, his imprint on the MLB will live on forever regardless of how one particular voter unfortunately felt. Ichiro was a two-time American League batting champion and 10-time All-Star and Gold Glove outfielder, hitting .311 with 117 homers, 780 RBIs and 509 stolen bases with the Mariners, Yankees and Marlins. Truly elite.
Class of 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame
CC Sabathia also makes it into the Hall, but there never was really a doubt in his case either. Sabathia, who was 251-161 with a 3.74 ERA, also was on the ballot for the first time, and he earned 86.8% of the vote. He was the 2007 AL Cy Young winner while with Cleveland, won a World Series title with the Yankees in 2009 and was a six-time All-Star selection over 19 seasons that included a stop with Milwaukee. So from his longevity to his actual ability and success from the mound; it was kinda obvious why he is HOFer material.
Additionally, there is also that little factor of him being a SO machine. Sabathia’s 3,093 career strikeouts make him one of 19 members of the 3,000-strikeout club. And he ranks third among left-handers on that list, behind Randy Johnson and Steve Carlton.
Baseball Hall of Fame 2025 Class—Full List of Inductees
Lastly, there is also Billy Wagner. Proving that relievers are just as important and iconic when it comes to baseball greatness. It is nice to see Wagner immortalized in stone forever; especially, since this was likely the last opportunity for him to make it into the Hall.
Billy’s selection comes in his 10th and final appearance on the BBWAA ballot, earning 82.5% for the seven-time All-Star. He became the ninth pitcher in the Hall who was primarily a reliever — the first left-hander among them.
So what finally did it for him? What got him in? His stats.
Wagner’s 422 career saves — 225 of which came with the Houston Astros — are the eighth most in big league history. In an era of strikeouts, few pitchers have been better at racking them up. Only four hurlers have a higher strikeout rate than Wagner (33.2%, minimum 750 innings).
Baseball’s Hall of Fame
So great players, great class of athletes. Plus, it is nice to see this MLB tradition of honoring legends continue. Nonetheless, if you are newer to the game, you may be wondering when did the baseball HOF begin?
Well, it was way back on Feb. 2, 1936, that Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. That day a new classification arose for future players, managers, umpires and executives. One that still excites the masses and gets us talking about America’s favorite pastime.
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