Since both men came to the majors in 2001, Ichiro and Albert Pujols are deadlocked on top of the batting average list at .331, and any chance I get to compare Ichiro to the best hitter of this ...

Even though the Major League Baseball season is officially over now, I still have baseball on the brain. One thing I've been wondering about lately is if Ichiro can reach the 3,000-hit plateau in ...

What is it about Ichiro that makes him great? Is it his relaxed persona, his ability to make the clutch plays when his team needs him to, the extra step he takes out of the batter's box every ...

Ichiro Suzuki has gotten to 3,000 hits with the unlikely aid of Barry Bonds, ... “Pete Rose is the best hitter in baseball,” he says. “Period. Bar none. Just erase your thoughts about it.

With Ichiro's accomplishments, he would almost have to be anointed the best player in major league history to be overrated. I, for one, have never heard that claim. So, let us just throw the ...

After all, Ichiro is approaching his record tenth 200-hit season, ... With Ichiro being the best contact hitter on the team (and arguably the best in baseball), ...

Ichiro tipped his helmet to the crowd, revealing a brush cut of gray hair. He is 42 now, the second-oldest player in the majors ... The language he has always known best is baseball.

Ichiro Suzuki entered the 3,000 hit club, ... • Subscribe to get the best of Sports Illustrated delivered right to your inbox. The wiry 27-year-old rightfielder quickly became a stateside sensation.

With the offseason in the rear-view mirror, it's become clear that GM Jack Zduriencik and the Seattle Mariners will live and die by the youth movement they've assembled—an undeniably double ...

Future Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki is best known as one of the most skilled batsmen of his era. The Japanese superstar arrived in Major League Baseball in 2001 at the age of 27, and over the next ...

July 8 -- The Japanese are famously reserved but not when it comes to their heroes. And in 130 years of Japanese baseball there's never been a hero quite like Ichiro Suzuki. "There's only one ...