Ichiro of course. (Unless you count last offseason, when our pitching rotation looked incredible, but you know how that turned out*)
*unless you live in NZ, then of course you don't most likely. Long story short: we made an audacious trade for a former Cy Young Winner**, then our batting was (some would say) predictably miserable, and the pitching didn't matter.
**Also for Kiwis: The award for the best pitcher in baseball, named after the guy who has not only the most career wins, but also the most career losses in baseball history***
*** yes, baseball is weird, but not as weird as cricket****
****like having to introduce a rule because a player replaces himself with a cardboard cutout.
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Ichiro would be awesome at cricket.
I've often thought or said this. In fact, he may have been better suited for it, due to his studiousness, and (seeming) love of focus and routine. He would have been an amazing all rounder....
This has to be the most empty accomplishment in baseball history.
well it is empty, since the rest of the team has been crap for the last 5 or 6 years.
But, it goes a long way to support the theory that Ichiro could, in some alternate universe, be the all-time hits leader soon if he had played all his seasons at MLB length, and not those 105(or close to that) game ones of in Japan....
And he's never been massively injured either.
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