Video: Ichiro Says He Wants to 'Have a Drink' with Writer Who Didn't Vote Him for HOF

While the rest of the baseball world shakes its fist at the one person who didn't include Ichiro on their Hall of Fame ballot, he is offering to host them at his house.

Speaking to reporters on Thursday, Ichiro said, via interpreter Allen Turner, that he wants to "have a drink" with the lone dissenting voter and "have a good chat" with them.

Ichiro, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner were all elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame as part of the 2025 class.

There was a lot of attention being paid to Ichiro's vote total because he was at 100 percent on the publicly available ballots trickling out before the official results came out.

When the final totals were revealed on Tuesday, Ichiro received 393 out of a possible 394 votes. His 99.7 percent total is tied with Derek Jeter for the second-highest in Hall of Fame history.

Mariano Rivera is the only player who has ever been unanimously voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

In the scheme of things, all that matters is Ichiro was correctly elected into the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America.

Per the BBWAA's official rules, members who vote for the Hall of Fame are made public when the results are announced. But the Hall of Fame doesn't publicize the actual ballots.

There are some voters who will make their ballot public when they send it in, which is how websites have been able to start tracking totals before the official tally comes out. Some public ballots will be anonymous.

There's not a bigger wing or a special plaque that a player gets if they are elected to the Hall of Fame unanimously, but it's strange to look throughout the history of baseball and see only one player has ever received every vote possible for induction.

Ichiro was a 10-time All-Star, 10-time Gold Glove winner and is one of two players in MLB history to win Rookie of the Year and MVP in the same season. When you combine his MLB and NPB stats, his 4,367 hits are the most ever by a player in professional baseball.