Friday, September 24, 2010

Congrats Ichiro

 So on September 23rd Ichiro Suzuki got his 200th hit of the season making 10 straight 200+ hit seasons! Only Pete Rose has had 10 200 hit seasons but he never did it more than three seasons in a row. Seeing as Ichiro played much of career in Japan and is 36 it highly unlikely that he will play in the major leagues long enough to get to the 4,200 hit mark and probably won't be able to get 3,000 hits as he needs 770 which would mean at least 4 more very good seasons or 3 record breaking ones but who knows? It's possible with all the training and conditioning players incorporate these days he may play until he's 47 and pile up another 2,000 knocks. Sadly he is on a team which has nobody to drive him in to score runs so he hasn't been able to get to the 100 run mark for the past two seasons. Even though his stolen bases are up which puts him in scoring position it's unlikely he'll score more than 80 times this year. Regardless of that stat he is still a hall of famer in my book,

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