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Ichiro ties record with 10th 200-hit season

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Chamillitary Click:
GOAT is obviously an exaggeration, but I love the guy. 8)

MistaNova:

--- Quote from: TheRemedy360 on September 24, 2010, 08:23:13 AM ---The most amazing part about this is that Pete did it in a 24 year career, Ichiro did it in his first 10 MLB seasons and is showing no signs of slowing down  8)

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Plus he hit 210 hits in a single season back when he was still playing in Japan. Career-wise he's already beaten Rose, still I look foward to him hitting another 200+ next year :).


--- Quote from: TheRemedy360 on September 24, 2010, 12:31:15 PM ---When I went to the homerun derby in 01 Ichiro took BP before hand and hit about 20 balls into the stands effortlesly. But for whatever reason he chose to be a leadoff hitter, and it's hard to consider a guy who gets a lot of singles as the best in the game.

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Ichiro's the kind of guy that wants to leave stats, plus whenever he reaches first base it's hell for the pitcher (Matsuzaka Daisuke quote). If he wasn't there to make the pitchers nervous I doubt Figgins would have half the number of hits he's had this season.

theremedy360:

--- Quote from: Iveus on September 25, 2010, 09:06:06 AM ---
--- Quote from: TheRemedy360 on September 24, 2010, 08:23:13 AM ---The most amazing part about this is that Pete did it in a 24 year career, Ichiro did it in his first 10 MLB seasons and is showing no signs of slowing down  8)

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Plus he hit 210 hits in a single season back when he was still playing in Japan. Career-wise he's already beaten Rose, still I look foward to him hitting another 200+ next year :).


--- Quote from: TheRemedy360 on September 24, 2010, 12:31:15 PM ---When I went to the homerun derby in 01 Ichiro took BP before hand and hit about 20 balls into the stands effortlesly. But for whatever reason he chose to be a leadoff hitter, and it's hard to consider a guy who gets a lot of singles as the best in the game.

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Ichiro's the kind of guy that wants to leave stats, plus whenever he reaches first base it's hell for the pitcher (Matsuzaka Daisuke quote). If he wasn't there to make the pitchers nervous I doubt Figgins would have half the number of hits he's had this season.

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I don't know how much you've actually watched the Mariners this season but I gotta completely disagree about Figgins. We signed the guy to a huge contract and he's been having his worst season since his rookie year. At the all star break the guy was barely hitting .220 (and this was after an all star season in LA). He's back up around .250, but that's still 30 points below his average. Figgins has stated several times that he admires Ichiro and refuses to say that hitting behind him had to do with his stat decrease, but any time you move a leadoff hitter to second it's gonna be hard. For whatever reason he just wasn't being aggressive. He's been hitting about .280 since the all star break so it sounds like he's finally adjusted. Obviously I can't blame Ichiro for his lack of production, but to credit him while the transition clearly hurt Figgins in the first half doesn't make sense. That 1-2 punch finally working does give us something to look forward to next year though.

MistaNova:

--- Quote from: TheRemedy360 on September 25, 2010, 09:44:16 AM ---I don't know how much you've actually watched the Mariners this season but I gotta completely disagree about Figgins. We signed the guy to a huge contract and he's been having his worst season since his rookie year. At the all star break the guy was barely hitting .220 (and this was after an all star season in LA). He's back up around .250, but that's still 30 points below his average. Figgins has stated several times that he admires Ichiro and refuses to say that hitting behind him had to do with his stat decrease, but any time you move a leadoff hitter to second it's gonna be hard. For whatever reason he just wasn't being aggressive. He's been hitting about .280 since the all star break so it sounds like he's finally adjusted. Obviously I can't blame Ichiro for his lack of production, but to credit him while the transition clearly hurt Figgins in the first half doesn't make sense. That 1-2 punch finally working does give us something to look forward to next year though.

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Okay, so maybe saying Ichiro's the reason Figgins has had his hits was far fetched. I was just trying to say that having Ichrio on one of the bases is a threat to any pitcher, got carried away.

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