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they may be all-in on Machado now !

 

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/mike-s...priate-metoo-movement-comments-001032237.html

my childhood hero in some hot water. ugh. what he said wasn't even that bad. jeez.

 

This just in...Clay Buchholz still sucks.

 

Braves in first place... first time in nearly 4 years.

 

I'm shocked the marlins have 11 wins already.

 

Ichiro leaves the playing field and takes a job in the front office.

 

Putting Ichiro’s career into historical perspective

Earlier today, the Mariners announced that outfielder Ichiro Suzuki would be ending his season to take a new job in the club’s front office. While the announcement did not use the word “retire” or “retirement,” it’s reasonable to say that the 44-year-old may be done as a player in Major League Baseball. So now is as good a time as any to put his Hall of Fame career into perspective.

Ichiro debuted in 2001 as a 27-year-old, coming to the Mariners from Japan. He led all of baseball with 242 hits and 56 stolen bases while leading the American League with a .350 average. He won the AL Most Valuable Player and Rookie of the Year Awards. The only other player to win both awards in the same season is Fred Lynn (Red Sox, 1975).

Ichiro set the single-season hits record in 2004 with 262 hits, surpassing George Sisler who had 257 knocks in 1920.

Ichiro led the league in hits seven times. Only one player did it more often — Ty Cobb. Tony Gwynn and Pete Rose also led the league in hits seven times.

Ichiro has 3,089 career hits, 22nd-most in MLB history. There are only 31 members of the 3,000 hit club currently. (Albert Pujols should soon join the club as he’s at 2,998.)

Ichiro is one of only 17 players to rack up 300 or more hits in his 40’s.

Ichiro hit .291 in 365 plate appearances as a 42-year-old in 2016 with the Marlins. The only hitters to put up a higher batting average in 300-plus PA at the age of 42 or older are Julio Franco (.309, 45 years old in 2004) and Luke Appling (.301, 42 years old in 1949).

Ichiro led the league with a .372 batting average in 2004. It is the seventh-highest batting average among qualified hitters since 1945. The others: Tony Gwynn (.394, 1994), George Brett (.390, 1980), Rod Carew (.388, 1977), Ted Williams (.388, 1957), Larry Walker (.379, 1999), and Stan Musial (.376, 1948).

Ichiro has a career .311 batting average across 18 seasons and 10,728 plate appearances. Only five hitters have a higher career batting average with at least 10,000 PA since 1945: Tony Gwynn (.338), Wade Boggs (.328), Rod Crew (.328), Stan Musial (.328), and Roberto Clemente (.317). Just 16 hitters have a career .300 average with 10,000-plus PA.

Ichiro stole 509 bases in his career. There are only 39 total members of the 500 steals club.

Ichiro is one of only seven players to have both 3,000-plus hits and 500-plus stolen bases in his career. The others: Rickey Henderson (3,055; 1,406), Paul Molitor (3,319; 504), Lou Brock (3,023; 938), Eddie Collins (3,315; 741), Ty Cobb (4,189; 897), and Honus Wagner (3,420; 723). (NBC Sports)

 

I always debate which was more remarkable about that play...the way Ichiro so effortlessly circled the bases, or how terribly Junior misplayed that ball lol.

 

Here is a poem...

By the way, Albert is just 1 hit away of hitting #3K.

 

is that fair ? it ricocheted off the wall to the opposite direction. I don't think Griff thought it would go that way. like the Green Monster, it's unpredictable which way it will bounce off of it.

 

see ya in Cooperstown Ichiro. I was shocked how well he adjusted to MLB pitchers and then after 10 yrs, how fast his decline was. This guy was a hitting machine. A terminator of singles. Then his average plummeted and he wasn't the same guy. Then he got traded to NY and FLorida and was a bench player. Crazy. Wish he would've came over to the US and MLB sooner. He would've challenged Rose for the hit record.

 

Yeah, he took an absolutely terrible route to that ball...look how far he ran past where the ball actually hit before it even gets there (pause it at about 8-9 seconds in...the ball hits the left side of the See's Candy sign, he's almost to the middle of the whole next panel of the fence). Very un-Junior-like.

 

I'm pretty confident Ichiro would've beaten Rose if he had played his whole career in the US.

 

I think he thought that's where the ricochet was going to go. it took a right turn and went way to the right. haha. Junior had 10+ GG, so it's hard to argue with him over a ball that took a weird bounce.

 

yeah it would've been interesting to see his stats against MLB pitchers as a true rookie and if the hits would've piled up as an early 20 year old.

 

Don't forget he'd've had about 30 extra games a year compared to what he had in Japan, too.

 

He did it! Welcome to 3000, Pujols!