Marlins' Ichiro Suzuki reaches 2,936 MLB hits, passing his hitting coach Barry Bonds for 33rd all-time. r/baseball The BIGGEST and BEST subreddit for America's pastime: baseball.

Or how about that Ichiro is the 5th best defensive RF of all time. Or that he was the best player in Japan for 5 years before coming to the US and being an MVP caliber player. While the casual fan of the mid 2000s certainly overrated Ichiro's hitting, he is definitely underrated by the more "advanced" fans of today.

Aug 28, 2022 · Answer: Ichiro Suzuki is notable for his accomplishments as a player in the Major Leagues, but also because he was one of the first position players to move to Major League Baseball from the Nippon Profesisonal Baseball (NPB) League in Japan (all other players to move to MLB from Japan before him were pitchers).

Apr 22, 2022 · I take prime Ichiro on my team every time, not to mention he joined MLB after. In terms of players before, Ichiro was really the first position player from Asia, and the pitchers that came before, while good (not to sleep on guys like Hideo Nomo, Chan-Ho Park, and Byung-Hyun Kim), were nowhere near Ichiro’s output even at their peak

I always feel obligated to share this piece about Jason Bay and Ichiro at the All Star Game 10 years ago. “As if leading the league in RBIs and making his third All-Star team wasn’t enough, Jason Bay is good at blogging too. He wrote about his All-Star experience for WEEI.com, including this amusing moment with Ichiro Suzuki: Workout day.

Oct 16, 2022 · Yeah also a specific reason I had heard he used Ichiro was because Suzuki is a widely used family name across Japan, far more used than you find in America but I'd think a close comparison may be an American player named Sanders or James.

Aug 26, 2021 · A lot of people will mention Ichiro in the same breath as Rickey Henderson in terms of best leadoff hitters of all-time, but Rickey Henderson far and away was a more valuable leadoff hitter. People that put him on par statistically with Rickey Henderson are overrating him.

He claims I’m biased (I may be), and Ichiro was a great player but his career was unimpressive, so he won’t be first ballot. I assume his playing record cinches it. edit to clarify, my friend is claiming that he isn’t a lock because he wasn’t party to a franchise championship in his prime.

Aug 11, 2014 · Ohgi an astute baseball man, quickly recognized the breakout potential of Suzuki. Ohgi was a flamboyant sort and he understood the name Ichiro Suzuki, as commonplace as Joe Smith is in the United States, offered little pizazz for an already colorless Blue Wave team that played in the second-fiddle Pacific League.

Let's fucking relax lol. I 100% agree for the basis of this argument Ichiro Suzuki>Derek Jeter. But objectively you are incorrect because i wouldnt give Ichiro the "power" tool an actual 5 tool guy needs. yes, he was apparently a legendary BP guy, and yes Foolish Made that video about him. But apocryphal anecdotes are not the stats we have.