NEW YORK – There’s nothing new to my 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, except the pleasure of voting for first-time eligibles Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia. Of the 28 players appearing on this year’s ballot, I checked six boxes. Ichiro, with his all-around brilliance, ought to be unanimous.

A pitcher hasn't been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame from the Baseball Writers' Association of America ballot since Mariano Rivera, Roy Halladay and Mike Mussina made the cut in 2019. Not since

Sabathia, who won 251 games during his career, is on the ballot for the first time. Tyler Carey lays out why the big lefty is deserving of induction this summer.

CC Sabathia is on the cusp of becoming one of the few players elected to the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility.

Next summer’s Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony could have a Yankees’ flavor with right fielder Ichiro Suzuki and pitcher CC Sabathia tracking to be voted in with ease as first-year candidates, and outfielder Carlos Beltran also above the necessary 75 percent threshold.

I filled up all 10 slots on my Hall of Fame ballot this year. This is that column where I let you in on which 10 boxes I checked.

Baseball Hall of Fame announcement is around the corner. A handful of hopefuls will learn if they are to join the select company enshrined in Cooperstown, N.Y. Each class of Hall of Fame inductees is determined by yearly elections.

While the weather outside is unbearable for most at the moment, conditions in Cooperstown, NY will soon be warming up as the Baseball Hall of Fame is set to announce the newest class of inductees to its distinguished brotherhood of legends.

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?