Asked last spring what his retirement might someday look like, Ichiro said āI think Iāll just die.ā Which made his sudden retirement, earlier this month, darkly fascinating, if not downright alarmingāwould Ichiro fall down dead immediately after making the announcement? Would he lay down tiredly, deliver one finalā¦
Ichiro retired (or whatever) last week. Appropriately, Peter Gammons has an Ichiro tribute (behind the paywall) at The Athletic today. Itās about how dedicated Ichiro is to the craft of baseball, and opens with an anecdote from Barry Bonds.
Ichiro, the true hit king, has played his final major-league gameāprobably.
The Mariners lost at home yesterday to the Indians. This would be a happier story if theyād won, although I feel no particular way about the Mariners. But this is Ichiro doing a cool and heroic thing on a baseball diamond in the majors in 2018āhad it been part of a win, it wouldāve been that much sweeter. Here we haveā¦
Ichiro, Marcell Ozuna, and Giancarlo Stanton all hit home runs in the seventh inning against the Phillies today. Ichiroās was the longest.
Marlins outfielder/baseballās True Hit King Ichiro Suzuki is 43 years old, yet heās not going to stop playing professional baseball anytime in the forseeable future. Last year, he appeared in 143 games and hit .291, and even though the Marlins donāt plan to use him as an every-day starter, Ichiro will once again getā¦
Ichiro Suzuki, the true Hit King, joined Paul Molitor as the only member of the 3,000 Hit Club to do so with a triple when he did so in the top of the seventh inning today in Denver.
As weāve stated before, Ichiro Suzuki is the true Hit King, and Pete Rose, who looks like two dog asses fucking, can get bent. We were forced to make this proclamation after Rose got sassy about the 1,278 hits Ichiro racked up in Japan, which make him a definitively superior batsman to Rose when combined with theā¦
ESPN has a cool profile of Ichiro that is chock-full of anecdotes and details about his routine. Highlights: Ichiro used to give a profanity-laden pump-up speech in English to his all-star teammates every year; heās been trying to work as an emergency pitcher since he came into the league; he really does hit a ton ofā¦
Hereās a Barry Bonds interview from a few weeks ago that aligns eerily well with the baseball sensibilities of a few Deadspin staffers. There have been tales of Ichiroās monster batting practice dingers for a few years, and Bonds here confirms that Ichiro can still slap āem all around the yard.
Today, Ichiro Suzuki hit an eighth-inning double off of Fernando Rodney to the right field corner. He sent Giancarlo Stanton to third, and he trotted into second base easily, looking mildly annoyed more than anything before he briefly removed his batting helmet to salute the crowd. If you count his 1,278 hits inā¦
Ichiro Suzuki should be making us sad. Heās 42 years old, a wisp of the player he used to be, and currently in year two of the Joe Montana-in-Kansas City phase of his career. An old-ass former star playing out his final days for a no-account team like the Marlins, in a stadium as garish as it is consistently empty, isā¦
Ichiro Suzuki is an ageless wonder who quite possibly has limitless baseball powers he only chooses to dole out sparingly for the art of it. One of those powers is pitching, which he did against the Phillies today. His official line? One inning pitched, one earned run, and two hits. Hereās some evidence.
Ichiro stories are the best stories, and the Wall Street Journal recently published another great one that will make you dread the day Ichiro eventually retires. It turns out, Ichiro has spent his career becoming a favorite of Latin players around the league because he talks shit to them in Spanish.
Ichiro Suzuki hit his first home run of the season last night, a three-run homer that put the Yankees on top of the Blue Jays 6-4. It was Ichiro's first home run in almost a full calendar year, and as he approached the dugout, Jeter gave him the who are you and what have you done with Ichiro? look. And then bustedā¦
Ichiro, on not being a starter for the first time in his career: "I know the rules in baseball aren't going to change, but maybe they can play four outfielders? I haven't thought about that before. But now I do." [NJ.com]
There was a blog post today on blogger "Bloggin'" Murray Chass's blog about Yankees outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, and it includes this predictably insane story about the lengths Ichiro goes to in selecting his bats:
David Shields has authored 14 books and has written for a wide variety of publications throughout his career. His latest book, Baseball Is Just Baseball: The Understated Ichiro, is a collection of the most fascinating Ichiro quotes. Here's a sampling of what you'll find in the book:
This is one of the things about the Yankees, one of the reasons the New York Yankees are a sickness on the soul of baseball, this play from Ichiro Suzuki last night. Ichiro! Honestly, if you root against the Yankeesāwhich is to say, if you are not a native of the Bronx or a depraved human beingāthis might be theā¦
We hear plaudits for Ichiro Suzuki a lot. He's consistent, he's one of the best baseball players of the past decade, he curses hilariously in the clubhouse before all-star games. Add a new oneāhe has such pinpoint control of the ball as it comes off his bat that he can make it essentially unfield-able, by hitting itā¦
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