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The Ichiro Lead Off Debate

Eric Wedge is talking tough about Ichiro Suzuki according to an Associated Press piece reported on ESPN.com. Wedge is quoted in the report as saying, "Ultimately it's not just about Ichiro, it's about our club and his 24 other teammates." Those are some pretty strong words. If you read between the lines there, Wedge is saying that he can't be worried about...
Via The Flagrant Fan  |  17 days ago
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Ichiro Suzuki: High Mental Stress, May Leave Seattle Mariners

Ichiro Suzuki has always been one of the more stoic major superstars in the world, but losing and seeing his streak of 10 seasons with 200 hits come to an abrupt end was enough to cause the greatest hitter in the world some frustration.  He has always kept a controlled buffer with the media, but recently he decided to open up and reveal to the world — in his opinion —...
Via Sports Report 360  |  January 09, 2012
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Player Profile #98: Ichiro Suzuki | OF | SEA

Have we seen the end of Ichiro Suzuki as a productive fantasy outfielder? I’m going to say no, but we are definitely getting close. Ichiro hit under .300 for the first time in his career (.272) and posted his worst ISO (.064) in 2011. He’s also gone three straight years with fewer than 90 runs scored. That being said, he still stole 40 bases last year, his .295 BABIP...
Via Baseball Professor  |  12 days ago
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Seattle Mariners To Drop Ichiro Suzuki?

The Seattle Mariners are considering dropping Ichiro Suzuki. You heard it here first. They are considering dropping him in their batting order entering the 2012 MLB season. You didn’t really think I meant that the team was going to do anything such as cut or waive him entirely, did you? Mariners manager Eric Wedge admitted on multiple occasions that he was considering moving...
Via hardballchat.com  |  17 days ago
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#96: Have we seen the end of Ichiro Suzuki?

It’s amazing that, at age 38, this is really the first time we’ve ever asked if we’ve seen the end of Ichiro Suzuki as we’ve come to know him. That’s what happens when you fail to record 200 hits for the first time in your 11 year career, when your .272 average appears on the third page of the Fangraphs leaderboards and when your career 11.0 Ultimate...
Via Baseball Professor  |  December 05, 2011
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Seattle considers moving Suzuki out of leadoff

Seattle manager Eric Wedge says he's leaning toward moving Ichiro Suzuki out of the leadoff spot as a way to improve the Mariners' anemic offense. During the Mariners' pre-spring training luncheon on Thursday, Wedge said he's not completely set on moving Suzuki from the spot he's held since he arrived from Japan in 2001. Wedge said he's considered the No...
Via AP on Fox  |  18 days ago
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Five Irrational thoughts & predictions for the 2012 Seattle Mariners

It’s Fun To Be Irrational Its beginning to look a lot like spring.  Well not literally I suppose.  The trees are still bare, it gets dark early and the sun seems like a distant memory. But the Seattle Mariners have opened up their training camp and thus Major League Baseball is back under way. This off season saw a lot of changes to the American League Western division, with...
Via NorthWest Sports Beat  |  11 hours ago
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Ichiro’s fall is not as precarious as you think

How can such a great player suddenly struggle like this? (Getty Images) Whenever you watch the Mariners, you always hear about Ichiro. Normally it’s how incredibly well he’s hitting, fielding, and stealing bases. These days, it’s all about the fall of Ichiro. Ichiro has hit just .271 thus far in 2011 with just a .303 OBP. This is from a player who entered 2011...
Via isportsweb.com  |  September 08, 2011
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Ichiro says he ‘felt desperate’ last season

It’s no stretch to say Ichiro Suzuki had a disappointing season with the Mariners last year. The 38-year-old struggled at the plate, hitting just .272 – bad, for Ichiro – and watching his decade-long 200-hit streak come to an end. M’s fans wondered whether Ichiro’s days of stardom were over. Ichiro himself, it turns out, [...]
Via Seattle Post-Intelligencer  |  January 04, 2012
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Japanese INF Kawasaki only interested in Mariners

Japanese infielder Munenori Kawasaki wants to go to the major leagues, provided he can join Ichiro Suzuki with the Seattle Mariners. Kawasaki said at a news conference Thursday that he is only thinking about playing on the same team as Suzuki and would have to decline other offers. The 30-year-old Kawasaki is a free agent and could negotiate with any major league team, but prefers...
Via AP on Fox  |  December 01, 2011
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Ichiro Suzuki: Bad Luck, Or Bad Age?

Ichiro Suzuki is getting old. In life, that’s not a bad thing. In baseball, it is. He is now in season 11 of the MLB portion of his career and season 20 of his professional career. Despite his age, he has played in 102 of the Seattle Mariners’ 103 games this year (not counting today). Moreover, he has more plate appearances (457) than anyone over age 35 in 2011. The next...
Via Fangraphs  |  July 27, 2011
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Ichiro lookalike interferes with live ball during Mariners game

Holy crap. This fan looks so much like Ichiro I literally thought he was wearing an Ichiro mask at first. Apparently he's a popular fixture at Mariners games, he often poses for pictures and signs autographs for fans. Luckily for him, he's popular enough that Mariners security actually didn't kick him out of the game after this incident, and instead they just gave him a warning and...
Via The Nosebleeds  |  August 03, 2011
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Fake Ichiro interferes with live ball

It's not everyday that you get to see an Ichiro impersonator but there is man in Seattle impersonating the Mariners star and yesterday, he got into the action rather inadvertantly.During a Dustin Ackley at-bat, Ackley lined a shot down the line which eventually bounced off the tarp and was interfered with by the fake Ichiro:(Courtesy of Sports Grid)
Via Outside the Boxscore  |  August 03, 2011
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Wedge leaning toward moving Ichiro in lineup

Ichiro Suzuki has been entrenched in the leadoff spot for the Mariners since 2001, but manager Eric Wedge indicated the 38-year-old right fielder is likely to be slotted lower in the order during the upcoming season.
Via seattlemariners.com  |  19 days ago
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Ichiro Suzuki Should be On the Trade Block for the Seattle Mariners

Ichiro Suzuki came over from Japan and has put together one of the best hitting careers in the history of the game. If he were playing his entire career here, he could be approaching Pete Rose’s all time hit record in a few years. We all know about that, and we all know about his gold glove caliber defense every single year. However, he’s getting paid a ton of money,...
Via Rant Sports  |  August 02, 2011
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Kawasaki invited to spring camp by Seattle

Japanese infielder Munenori Kawasaki says he's been invited to spring training by the Seattle Mariners. The 30-year-old free agent says ''I'll be going to Arizona in February to compete for a job.'' Kawasaki batted .267 with 161 hits in 144 games last season to help lead the Softbank Hawks to their first Japan Series championship in eight years. Kawasaki previously said he would...
Via AP on Fox  |  January 05, 2012
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Ichiro Suzuki - Pride and Sadness

The game between the Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees on Monday night was indicative in how far the Mariners have fallen. The game was just as indicative of how far Ichiro Suzuki has fallen. The former Japanese star has played in all but two of the Mariners' 102 games after playing in every single game last year. And while last year showed some slippage in the hitting machine...
Via The Flagrant Fan  |  July 26, 2011
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Suzuki finishing off down year with M's

Out on the right field concourse, nothing looks different from the previous decade. Fans still show up with signs and symbols of adulation for Seattle Mariners star Ichiro Suzuki: his name in traditional Japanese symbols, Japanese flags, even the omnipresent ''Ichi-meter'' keeping track of his total hits for the season. But that hit meter hasn't clicked over...
Via Fox Sports  |  September 27, 2011
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Ichiro Suzuki Player Projection No. 126

Key Stats: Going back to 2006 (and probably further, but I don't keep records that far back) Ichiro Suzuki has not been ranked worse than 116 in any season. When we talk about the term consistency in fantasy baseball Ichiro is the standard which we based that term off of. Despite being on the worst offense for the second straight year in all of baseball, Ichiro has never had...
Via Fantasy Baseball 365  |  December 05, 2011
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2012 MLB Baseball Betting: Seattle Mariners Futures Odds

MLB Odds Oddmakers are not giving the Mariners much of a chance to make any noise in the upcoming season, as they are at 125/1 to win the World Series and have the worst MLB odds (80/1) to win the American League pennant. Last season the Mariners had the 2nd worst record in the American League and the 4th worst record in the Majors. They finished 29 games back of the Rangers in the...
Via NorthWest Sports Beat  |  7 days ago
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First up, Mariners look at where to bat Ichiro

Seattle Mariners manager Eric Wedge says he's still figuring out where to bat longtime leadoff man Ichiro Suzuki. The 38-year-old Suzuki is coming off a season in which he hit .272 with a .310 on-base percentage, by far the lowest marks in his 11-year career with the Mariners. Suzuki has hit exclusively in the leadoff spot for several years. Wedge says he's met with the...
Via Fox Sports  |  December 06, 2011
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Hoping Ichiro Doesn't Make it to 200

Robbie Knopf over at isportsweb made an excellent argument that Ichiro Suzuki's off season is not due to age but due to luck. And while Knopf does an excellent job at using BABIP on ground balls and line drives to show that Ichiro is simply unlucky this season, this writer isn't quite convinced. What we need here to prove Knopf's case is a statistic that measures the...
Via The Flagrant Fan  |  September 09, 2011
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Should the Mariners Resign Ichiro?

Our man on the Mariners beat Danny Ferguson weighs in with some thoughtful opinions on the state of the Ichiro Suzuki and his contract status with the Seattle Mariners. This season could be the indicator that even the greatest of athletes can’t outrun time.
Via NorthWest Sports Beat  |  September 20, 2011
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Ichiro’s Final Push – Is 200 Hits Achievable This Year?

“If I’m in a slump I ask myself for advice.” – Ichiro Suzuki Be glad I opened with a ‘wink and a smile’ quote from Ichiro. I almost went with a song and dance number – “one of these things is not like the other, one of these things just doesn’t fit in.” Ichiro – like the great Albert Pujols – is having one of those seasons that ‘ just doesn...
Via Dugout Central  |  August 31, 2011
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Ichiro had down season, but don't count him out

Owing largely to the remoteness of Seattle, both geographically and in the recent American League West standings, Ichiro Suzuki's substandard 2011 season went under the radar, even as it was falling off the charts.
Via seattlemariners.com  |  December 27, 2011
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