When Bryan Woo gets to the field every day, Ichiro Suzuki is already there. Taking batting practice. Shagging fly balls. Playing catch. He hangs around after too, offering any advice he can to the current generation of Mariners players.

“Lou Piniella was very skeptical,” said Larry Stone, a Seattle Times baseball writer who has covered Ichiro’s career extensively. “That spring training, Ichiro started off not pulling the ball, not driving the ball. And Lou was like, ‘Who is this guy? When is he going to show me something?’”

Christian Yelich brings a different perspective than Carroll or Kwan. Yelich played three seasons as Ichiro’s teammate in Miami. He remembered playing catch with Ichiro the day after he collected his 3,000th hit in the majors, one of those pinch-me kind of moments.

Ichiro’s charisma accompanied an incredible performance on the field, one that came with no discernable adjustment period. Among his many accomplishments, he became only the second player in Major League history to win his league’s Rookie of the Year Award and MVP Award in the same year, joining Boston's Fred Lynn (1975).

This weekend, Mariners legend Ichiro Suzuki will become the first Asian player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Ichiro will transition into a role deemed "Special Assistant to the Chairman," where he will work with the Mariners' major-league staff and front office. But his agent insists Ichiro is not retiring.

Ichiro announced his retirement after a two-game series in Tokyo, Japan against the Oakland A’s on March 21, 2019. Seattle requires at least five active seasons in a Mariners uniform and two ...

The 51-year-old Ichiro retired in 2019 with 3,089 career hits, in MLB, with a .311 batting average.He led the majors in hits seven times and his impact on the game, globally, couldn't be summed up ...

Ichiro Suzuki looks back at his career journey and accomplishments as he's inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.