COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Outfielder Ichiro Suzuki and pitcher CC Sabathia are among 14 new candidates on the Hall of Fame ballot released Monday, joining 14 holdovers led by reliever Billy Wagner.
Pitcher Félix Hernández, outfielder Carlos González and infielders Dustin Pedroia and Hanley Ramírez also are among the newcomers joined by reliever Fernando Rodney, second baseman Ian Kinsler, second baseman/outfielder Ben Zobrist, shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, catchers Russell Martin and Brian McCann, and outfielders Curtis Granderson and Adam Jones.
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FILE - With the "King's Court" cheering section behind him, Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Félix Hernández tips his cap as he takes the mound for the team's baseball game against the Oakland Athletics, Sept. 26, 2019, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
FILE - New York Yankees starting pitcher CC Sabathia throws during the fourth inning of the team's baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays, July 16, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, file)
FILE - Retired Colorado Rockies outfielder Carlos Gonzalez waves to the crowd during a promotion to mark the team's 30th anniversary before the Rockies host the Oakland Athletics in a baseball game, July 30, 2023, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, file)
FILE - Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki heads to first base after hitting a single against the Cleveland Indians during the third inning of a baseball game March 31, 2018, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2011, file photo, Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia celebrates the completion of a triple play against the Tampa Bay Rays during the fourth inning of the second baseball game of a doubleheader in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
Wagner received 284 votes and 73.8% in the 2024 balloting, five votes shy of the 75% needed when third baseman Adrian Beltré, catcher/first baseman Joe Mauer and first baseman Todd Helton were elected. Wagner will be on the ballot for the 10th and final time.
Other holdovers include steroids-tainted stars Alex Rodriguez (134 votes, 34.8%) and Manny Ramirez (125, 32.5%) along with Andruw Jones (237, 61.6%), Carlos Beltran (220, 57.1%), Chase Utley (111, 28.8%), Omar Vizquel (68, 17.7%), Jimmy Rollins (57, 14.8%), Bobby Abreu (57, 14.8%), Andy Pettitte (52, 13.5%), Mark Buehrle (32, 8.3%), Francisco Rodríguez (30, 7.8%), Torii Hunter (28, 7.3%) and David Wright (24, 6.2%).
Gary Sheffield was dropped after receiving 246 votes and 63.9% in his 10th and final year on the ballot. He will be eligible for consideration when the ballot is selected for the committee that considered contemporary era players in December 2025.
BBWAA members with 10 or more consecutive years of membership are eligible to vote. Ballots must be postmarked by Dec. 31 and results will be announced Jan. 23. Anyone elected will be inducted on July 27 along with anyone chosen Dec. 8 by the hall’s classic baseball committee considering eight players and managers whose greatest contributions to the sport were before 1980.
Suzuki in 2001 joined Fred Lynn in 1975 as the only players to win AL Rookie of the Year and AL MVP in the same season. Suzuki was a two-time AL batting champion and 10-time Gold Glove winner, hitting .311 with 117 homers, 780 RBIs and 509 stolen bases with Seattle (2001-12, 2018-19), the New York Yankees (2012-14) and Miami (2015-17). He had a record 262 hits in 2004.
Sabathia was a six-time All-Star, won the 2007 AL Cy Young Award and a World Series title in 2009. He was 251-161 with a 3.74 ERA and 3,093 strikeouts, third among left-handers behind Randy Johnson and Steve Carlton, during 19 seasons with Cleveland (2001-08), Milwaukee (2008) and the New York Yankees (2009-19).
Hernández, the 2010 AL Cy Young winner and a six-time All-Star, won the 2010 and 2014 AL ERA titles. He was 169-136 with a 3.42 ERA and 2,524 strikeouts for Seattle from 2005-19. Hernández pitched the 23rd perfect game in major league history against Tampa Bay on Aug. 15, 2012.
González was a three-time All-Star, three-time Gold Glove winner and the 2010 NL batting champion. He hit .285 with 234 homers, 785 RBIs and 122 stolen bases for Oakland (2008), Colorado (2009-18), Cleveland (2019) and the Chicago Cubs (2019).
Pedroia was a four-time All-Star and four-time Gold Glove winner, helping Boston to World Series titles in 2007 and 2013. He batted .299 with 140 homers, 725 and 138 steals for the Red Sox from 2006-19, winning the 2007 AL Rookie of the Year and 2008 AL MVP.
Ramírez was voted the 2006 NL Rookie of the Year and won the 2009 NL batting title, becoming a three-time All-Star. He hit .289 with 271 homers, 917 RBIs and 281 stolen bases for Boston (2005, 2015-18), the Florida and Miami Marlins (2006-12), Los Angeles Dodgers (2012-14) and Cleveland (2019).
Dick Allen, Dave Parker and Luis Tiant are being considered by the the classic era committee along with Tommy John, Steve Garvey, Ken Boyer and former Negro Leaguers John Donaldson and Vic Harris.
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FILE - With the "King's Court" cheering section behind him, Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Félix Hernández tips his cap as he takes the mound for the team's baseball game against the Oakland Athletics, Sept. 26, 2019, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
FILE - New York Yankees starting pitcher CC Sabathia throws during the fourth inning of the team's baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays, July 16, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens, file)
FILE - Retired Colorado Rockies outfielder Carlos Gonzalez waves to the crowd during a promotion to mark the team's 30th anniversary before the Rockies host the Oakland Athletics in a baseball game, July 30, 2023, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, file)
FILE - Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki heads to first base after hitting a single against the Cleveland Indians during the third inning of a baseball game March 31, 2018, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
FILE - In this Aug. 16, 2011, file photo, Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia celebrates the completion of a triple play against the Tampa Bay Rays during the fourth inning of the second baseball game of a doubleheader in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil pushed for concerted action to alleviate hunger Monday as it hosted a summit of the Group of 20 leading economies amid global uncertainty over two major wars and incoming U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva welcomed foreign leaders to Rio de Janeiro’s modern art museum Monday morning and delivered an opening address that focused on fighting food insecurity.
“It is for those of us here, around this table, to face the undelayable task of ending this stain that shames humanity,” Lula told his colleagues. “That will be our biggest legacy.”
Heightened global tensions and uncertainty about an incoming Trump administration ahead of the summit already had tempered expectations for a strongly worded statement addressing the conflicts in the Middle East and between Russia and Ukraine. Further dimming prospects, G20 officials told The Associated Press that Argentina’s negotiators have started challenging some of the draft language.
That has left experts anticipaing a final document focused on social issues like the eradication of hunger — one of Brazil’s priorities — even if it still aims to include at least a mention of the ongoing wars.
“Brazilian diplomacy has been strongly engaged in this task, but to expect a substantively strong and consensual declaration in a year like 2024 with two serious international conflicts is to set the bar very high,” said Cristiane Lucena Carneiro, an international relations professor at the University of Sao Paulo.
After Lulathwarted far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro 's reelection bid in 2022, there was some excitement in the international community at the prospect of the leftist leader and savvy diplomat hosting the G20. Bolsonaro had little interest in international summits, let foreign policy be guided by ideology and clashed with several leaders, including French President Emmanuel Macron. Lula took office and often quoted a catchphrase: “Brazil is back."
Under Lula, Brazil has reverted to its decades-old principle of nonalignment to carve out a policy that best safeguards its interests in an increasingly multipolar world, even as his administration's foreign policy has at times raised eyebrows.
Trump’s win in the U.S. presidential election earlier this month and the imminent return of an “America First” doctrine may also hamper the diplomatic spirit needed for broad agreement on divisive issues. “If we have one certainty, it is regarding Donald Trump’s skepticism towards multilateralism,” Carneiro said.
Two officials from Brazil and one from another G20 nation say Argentine negotiators are standing in the way of a joint declaration. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly. Two of them said that Argentina’s negotiators have raised several objections to the draft, most vehemently opposing a clause calling for a global tax on the superrich — which they had previously accepted, in July — and another promoting gender equality.
Last month, Argentina alone opposed a declaration of the G20 working group on female empowerment, preventing consensus. While Lula received heads of state Monday with smiles and warm embraces, he and Argentina's right-wing President Javier Milei stood at arms' length while briefly shaking hands. Milei is an avid Trump supporter.
Ambassador Mauricio Lyrio, Brazil’s key negotiator at G20, told reporters earlier this month that Lula's launch of a global alliance against hunger and poverty on Monday is just as important as the final statement. As of Monday, 82 nations had signed on to the plan, Brazil’s government said.
“Brazil wanted a global deal to fight poverty, a project to finance green transition and some consensus over a global tax for the superrich. Only the first one has survived,” according to Thomas Traumann, a former government minister and a political consultant based in Rio.
U.S. President Joe Biden attended the summit after a stop in Lima for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum. He also traveled over the weekend to Manaus, a city in Brazil's Amazon rainforest. It was the first time a sitting American president set foot in the Amazon.
The White House announced Sunday a $50 million contribution to the Amazon Fund, the most significant international cooperation effort to preserve the rainforest, after a prior $50 million. Biden’s administration announced plans last year to give $500 million.
White House officials have said Biden also would use the summits to press allies to not lose sight of finding an end to the wars in Lebanon and Gaza and to keep up support for Ukraine as it tries to fend off Russia’s invasion. Looming large on Monday was news of Biden's decision to ease restrictions on Ukraine’s use of longer-range U.S. missiles to allow that country’s military to strike more deeply inside Russia.
During the summit, Biden pointed to his soon-to-end administration’s efforts on global hunger and poverty. He also urged counterparts to increase efforts to ease those ills as well as resolve wars in Sudan, Gaza and Ukraine.
“The United States strongly supports Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Everyone around this table in my view should, as well,” Biden said.
Any commitments Biden makes may be overturned by the next White House administration.
Trump’s election may cause some countries to look toward China as a more reliable partner. Meanwhile, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with China's Xi Jinping on Monday, the first meeting between British and Chinese leaders since 2018, seeking to repair relations with Beijing.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is the summit’s most notable absentee. The International Criminal Court has issued a warrant that obliges member states to arrest him. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attended the meeting.
In a plaza a few blocks away, hundreds of demonstrators gathered to denounce the killings in Gaza, some beating drums and chanting “Long live the fight of the Palestinian people!” Among them were two rabbis who traveled from New York. Israel isn’t a G20 member.
“We are trying to get the message to the G20, to the leaders of the world,” said Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, from the Neturei Karta International movement. “It is so critical. We are witnessing the mass murder of people and it is being perpetuated in the name of my religion, of Judaism. We cannot be silent, we dare not be silent.”
Aamer Madhani in Rio de Janeiro, Gabriela Sá Pessoa in Sao Paulo and Jill Lawless in London, contributed to this report.
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, and Chile's President Gabriel Boric talk during the G20 Summit leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Plates marked with crosses, symbolizing people suffering from hunger worldwide, are displayed at Copacabana Beach during a protest aimed at drawing the attention of leaders attending the upcoming G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Dhavid Normando)
Activists from a Brazilian Indigenous movement hold cutouts of Chinese President Xi Jinping, from left, President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a protest aimed at drawing the attention on the global climate crisis to leaders attending the upcoming G20 Summit, at Botafogo Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Activists from the Amazonia de Pe movement partake in a protest aimed at drawing the attention of leaders attending the upcoming G20 Summit on the Amazon Rainforest and the environmental crises, at Botafogo Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
France's President Emmanuel Macron, right, and Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum talk during the G20 Summit leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
The car carrying U.S. President Joe Biden arrives to the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)
Argentina's President Javier Milei, left, and France's President Emmanuel Macron greet during the G20 Summit leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Leaders attend a meeting at the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
China's President Xi Jinping arrives for the G20 Summit leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
U.S. President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the G20 Summit leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
China's President Xi Jinping, left, talks with Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz during the G20 Summit leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
U.S. President Joe Biden, right, and France's President Emmanuel Macron shake hands during the G20 Summit leaders meeting in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Brazilian honor guard wait for the start of a welcoming ceremony prior to the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Monday, Nov. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Rio de Janeiro city on Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024, who will host the G20 Summit next Monday and Tuesday. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, shakes hands with Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh during a bilateral meeting a day before the opening of the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, attends during a bilateral meeting with Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a day before the opening of the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, poses for photos with Angola's President Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenco, during a bilateral meeting a day before the opening of the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
UN Secretary-General António Guterres attends a press conference a day before the opening of the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Bruna Prado)
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva smiles during bilateral meetings a day before the opening of the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, shakes hands with United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, during a bilateral meeting a day before the opening of the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, pose for photos during a bilateral meeting a day before the opening of the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, shakes hands with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, during a bilateral meeting a day before the opening of the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, left, and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, walk during a bilateral meeting a day before the opening of the G20 Summit, in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)
