theScore's mock HOF ballot: We vote 4 players in, users elect Ichiro
With the 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame class set to be announced Tuesday, 14 of theScore's news editors submitted mock ballots revealing which players they believe are worthy of enshrinement in Cooperstown. We also have the results of our user ballot at the bottom of the article.
Inducted
| Players | Votes | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Ichiro Suzuki | 14 | 100% |
| CC Sabathia | 12 | 86% |
| Billy Wagner | 12 | 86% |
| Andruw Jones | 11 | 78% |
We elected four members to Cooperstown, with Ichiro the lone player on the ballot to receive 14 votes. Sabathia also gets elected in his first year on our ballot, while Wagner and Jones join this year's class after each falling one vote short on our ballots last winter.
Missed the cut
| Players | Votes | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Carlos Beltrán | 10 | 71% |
| Alex Rodriguez | 9 | 64% |
| Manny Ramirez | 9 | 64% |
| Félix Hernández | 7 | 50% |
| Chase Utley | 6 | 43% |
| Bobby Abreu | 6 | 43% |
| Andy Pettitte | 3 | 21% |
| Russell Martin | 1 | 7% |
| Dustin Pedroia | 1 | 7% |
| Ian Kinsler | 1 | 7% |
Beltrán missed out by a single vote for a second straight year. Neither Rodriguez or Ramirez were able to pick up additional consideration from our voters. First-timers Martin, Pedroia, and Kinsler picked up the necessary 5% to not fall off our hypothetical ballots.
Notables falling off our ballot
| Players | Percentage |
|---|---|
| Carlos González | 0% |
| Curtis Granderson | 0% |
| Torii Hunter | 0% |
| Adam Jones | 0% |
| Brian McCann | 0% |
| Hanley Ramirez | 0% |
| Fernando Rodney | 0% |
| Francisco Rodríguez | 0% |
| Jimmy Rollins | 0% |
| Troy Tulowitzki | 0% |
| Omar Vizquel | 0% |
| David Wright | 0% |
| Ben Zobrist | 0% |
Results from our user ballot
Our users elected Ichiro as the lone member of their 2025 class after not electing anyone last year.
Thanks for participating. We received 10,370 ballots. Check out the full results below. 👇
| Players | Votes | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Ichiro Suzuki | 9203 | 89% |
| CC Sabathia | 5988 | 58% |
| Manny Ramirez | 5533 | 53% ⬆️ |
| Andruw Jones | 5419 | 52% ⬇️ |
| Alex Rodriguez | 5225 | 50% ⬆️ |
| Billy Wagner | 4687 | 45% ⬆️ |
| Andy Pettitte | 4088 | 39% ⬆️ |
| Carlos Beltrán | 3912 | 38% ⬆️ |
| Félix Hernández | 3530 | 34% |
| Dustin Pedroia | 2752 | 27% |
| Omar Vizquel | 2129 | 21% ⬆️ |
| Chase Utley | 2062 | 20% |
| Bobby Abreu | 1915 | 18% ⬆️ |
| Torii Hunter | 1877 | 18% ⬆️ |
| Jimmy Rollins | 1784 | 17% ⬇️ |
| Mark Buehrle | 1747 | 17% ⬇️ |
| David Wright | 1597 | 15% |
| Russell Martin | 936 | 9% |
| Troy Tulowitzki | 829 | 8% |
| Francisco Rodríguez | 825 | 8% ⬇️ |
| Curtis Granderson | 707 | 7% |
| Brian McCann | 474 | 5% |
| Adam Jones | 385 | 4% |
| Ian Kinsler | 373 | 4% |
| Ben Zobrist | 373 | 4% |
| Carlos González | 301 | 3% |
| Hanley Ramirez | 253 | 2% |
| Fernando Rodney | 167 | 2% |