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

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 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.

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.

Recently elected Hal of Famer, Ichiro Suzuki was a Yankee for a 2 1/2 seasons but was still productive after being acquired from the Seattle Mariners.

Mark Buehrle and Omar Vizquel are still on there, but Russell Martin (played with Toronto from 2015-18), Troy Tulowitzki (played with Toronto from 2015-2017) and Curtis Granderson (played in Toronto in 2018) all fell off the ballot after receiving less than 5% of the vote.

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

The Toronto Blue Jays landed a big free agent target this week in outfielder Anthony Santander, and are reportedly looking to add to their pitching staff.

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.

Toronto got $2 million in international signing bonus pool allocation from Cleveland that could have been used in their ultimately fruitless bid for Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki as part of a deal Friday that also brought outfielder Myles Straw to Toronto.

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.

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.