Suzuki referened the lone writer who did not give him a Hall of Fame vote, saying that a previous invitation to dinner had now "expired."

Dave Parker, who died a month before he was to be inducted, and Dick Allen got into the Hall posthumously after being voted in by the classics committee.

"I wouldn't have made it all this way without the women redirecting me when I got lost," Sabathia said of his wife, Amber, and mom, Margie.