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Ichiro Suzuki

Japanese baseball player (born 1973)

"Ichiro" and "Ichirō" redirect here. For other people named Ichiro, see Ichirō (name).

This article is about the baseball player. For other uses, see Ichiro Suzuki (disambiguation).

The native form of this personal name is Suzuki Ichirō. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Baseball player

Ichiro Suzuki
Suzuki with the Seattle Mariners in 2011
Right fielder
Born: (1973-10-22) October 22, 1973 (age 51) Nishikasugai-gun, Aichi, Japan
NPB: July 11, 1992, for the Orix BlueWave
MLB: April 2, 2001, for the Seattle Mariners
NPB: October 13, 2000, for the Orix BlueWave
MLB: March 21, 2019, for the Seattle Mariners
Batting average	.353
Hits	1,278
Home runs	118
Runs batted in	529
Stolen bases	199
Batting average	.311
Hits	3,089
Home runs	117
Runs batted in	780
Stolen bases	509
Stats at Baseball Reference
NPB MLB
Induction	2025
Vote	99.7% (first ballot)

Ichiro Suzuki (鈴木 一朗, Suzuki Ichirō, born 22 October 1973), also known mononymously as Ichiro (イチロー, Ichirō), is a Japanese former professional baseballoutfie

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Photo: John Froschauer/Icon Sportswire

As we’ve done with Scott Rolen and Adrian Beltré the last two years, we wanted to tell the story of new Hall-of-Famer Ichiro Suzuki’s defensive excellence through those who saw him close-up.

Over the last couple of months, we talked to several of Ichiro’s teammates, rivals, and former managers to get a better sense of his defensive legacy.

Our tale begins with a scene from Ichiro’s Japanese rookie season, when he was an 18-year-old kid with the Orix Blue Wave in Nippon Professional Baseball.

Kelvin Torve, ex major leaguer and Orix Blue Wave teammate (1992-1993) – “I get to the ballpark and go down to the field to stretch. Ichiro’s standing in center field by himself. He’s got his hat over his heart and he’s facing the center field stands, screaming at the top of his lungs for 5, 10 minutes.

I asked our interpreter, ‘What’s gotten into Ichiro?’ And he said that yesterday there was a fly ball behind second base. Ichiro and our second baseman ran into each other.

So, what Ichiro was screaming was ‘My name is Ichiro Suzuki and I’m learning to use my voice.’ It was a punishment.

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