Last week, longtime closer Billy Wagner earned election into the Baseball Hall of Fame. His son, Will, plays for the Toronto Blue Jays.

With the Class of 2025 now behind us, we can start to focus on 2026, where former Toronto Blue Jays star Edwin Encarnacion will get his first crack at the Baseball Hall of Fame.

In the middle of the 2012 season, Derek Jeter found out he would be teammates with Ichiro Suzuki after the New York Yankees acquired him.

After Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner were voted into Cooperstown by the Baseball Writers' Association of America on Tuesday, Martin was among three former Blue Jays that didn't garner the five per cent of the vote required to have their candidacy carried onto 2026.

After coming in second on some high-profile free agents in the last two offseasons, the Blue Jays have signed switch-hitting outfielder Anthony Santander for five years and $92.5 million. His 44 home runs last year with the Orioles were third-most in the sport.

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.

Ichiro Suzuki could become the first Japanese player in baseball's Hall of Fame, and CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner and Carlos Beltrán also could be elected Tuesday when results of the writers' voting are announced.

When Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese-born player to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, he became the 22nd player born outside the United States (including Puerto Rico, which, though it is a U.

The 45-year-old Buehrle spent 16 years in the big leagues, including 12 with the White Sox, one with the Miami Marlins and three with the Toronto Blue Jays ... that Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia ...

On Tuesday of this week, Ichiro Suzuki, Billy Wagner and CC ... Among the group to appear on the ballot for the first time? Former Toronto Blue Jays slugger Edwin Encarnacion.

FILE - New York Yankees' Ichiro Suzuki, right, celebrates with teammate Mariano Rivera (42) after a baseball game against the Toronto Blue Jays on Aug. 21, 2013, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank ...

where former Toronto Blue Jays star Edwin Encarnacion will get his first crack at the Baseball Hall of Fame. On Tuesday of this week, Ichiro Suzuki, Billy Wagner and CC Sabathia were elected to ...