Sunday, October 3, 2010
Hit (A Lot) and Run (Extremely Fast)
I don't even think that the hard core baseball fan has truly appreciated what Ichiro (Suzuki) has just accomplished. I mean, just to get to 200 hits in a season once is an extraordinary accomplishment. The fact that this frigging guy has now done it for an entire decade (yeah, that's right, ten consecutive seasons of over 200 hits)/every single year he's been in the bigs - UNBELIEVABLE. And, while, yes, he has in fact been largely a singles hitter (he is, after all, a lead-off hitter), the rest of his stats aren't exactly shabby, either. In addition, folks, to his hit total of 2,242, he's also produced 1,046 runs scored, 257 doubles, 71 triples, 90 dingers, 556 RBIs, 382 stolen bases, 457 walks, and a .331 lifetime average. Add to that the fact that he's also won a gold glove for every year he's been in the league and, yeah, I think that it's totally fair to say that this guy is awesome.....Man, though, can you imagine if he had been able to play his entire career in America, the frigging statistics that the guy could have ended up with?..................................................................................................P.S. Still, though, even if he does slow down a tad - 5 more years at 150 hits a year - that pretty much gets him to 3,000. Not too bad, huh, for a guy who started out as a 27 year-old rookie?
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One of the reasons I watch news reports outside the United States is to actually get some news that doesn't involve Americans. I didn't hear this report but you are right, had he played in the United States the stats he would have piled on would have made him famous. God knows how much money he would have made endorsing products, just maybe we would have been spared some of Tiger Wood's over exposure.
Yeah, say he had gotten to America five years earlier. At 200 hits a year, he'd be well over 3,000 NOW, and a legitimate threat to Rose's lifetime record.....Man, oh, man, has baseball ever gotten huge in Japan.
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