Phillies legends Chase Utley and Jimmy Rollins hope to follow Billy Wagner’s path to Cooperstown, N.Y. The former Phillies closer learned on Tuesday night that he has been voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame,

It's likely that Chase Utley will make the Baseball Hall of Fame in the next ... but recent slow-burn inductees – namely Todd Helton and Scott Rolen (with Billy Wagner and Andruw Jones soon to come) – have paved a clearer path for a player like Utley.

The trio of stars, each of whom spent part of their career in New York, will be inducted in Cooperstown on July 27.

Billy Wagner is finally heading to Cooperstown. The Miller School baseball coach is part of the new class of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, which was announced Tuesday night. This was the former reliever's 10th and final time on the Baseball Writers' Association of America ballot.

With the Baseball Hall of Fame's class of 2024 announcement approaching, it's time to review this year's ballot. Today, we highlight the returnees poised to make serious gains in voting and perhaps even enter Cooperstown.

Ichiro Suzuki missed unanimous election to the Baseball Hall of Fame by one vote Tuesday night when he headlined a three-player class selected by the 394 voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America.

Ichiro Suzuki, C.C. Sabathia and Billy Wagner were elected as the newest members of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the museum announced.

With Ichiro Suzuki somehow not getting inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame unanimously on the first ballot, all signs point to this next icon of the game potentially being able to do what one voter decided should not be Suzuki's destiny.

The Cooperstown candidacies of Carlos Beltran and Andruw Jones might benefit by the lack of slam-dunk newcomers to the 2026 Hall of Fame ballot.

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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.