The great baseball player that Alex Rodriguez was, had no choice but to congratulate his former colleagues who were inducted into the Hall of Fame, CC Sabathia, Ichiro Suzuki and Billy Wagner. Through his social networks, the legendary A-Rod had to settle once again for congratulating the inductees on X (formerly Twitter) after he received only 146 of the 394 votes needed to be immortalized in Cooperstown.
A-Rod’s former teammates inducted
The former baseball player of Dominican origin shared an image in which the three inductees appear, accompanying it with a phrase: “Incredible to see the new class of legends inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame tonight.” He then also had posts dedicated to his two Yankees teammates. Of Sabathia he said that he is one of the “best teammates of all time“, while Suzuki was defined as “one of the best pure hitters I’ve ever seen“
This is the fourth year that A-Rod has appeared on the ballot to be voted into immortality, however, he has once again failed to get the voters on board to be inducted, and many attribute this to the association of his name with performance-enhancing substances, despite his legendary stint in the majors in which he was a 14-time All-Star and three-time American League MVP, hitting 696 home runs and recording 3,115 hits
That ghost still casts a shadow
A-Rod’s incredible numbers have not been enough to erase from his history that episode in which he was suspended by the League in 2014 for possession of performance-enhancing substances, a fact that continues to overshadow his path to Cooperstown, when everyone knows that the path exists and obviously the merits as well.
Alex Rodriguez got 37.1% of the vote this year, improving on 34% in 2024. The problem is that for the next six years he will have to reach a minimum of 75 percent of the votes on the ballot, and if he falls below five percent he will be eliminated. The worst-case scenario is ruled out, but getting three-quarters of the vote looks like an almost impossible task for the Washington Heights, New York, native.