My poll: Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, Billy Wagner, Andy Pettitte, Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins.
Ichiro Suzuki’s next interview was in spring training of 2019, when he attempted to get a roster spot on the Seattle Mariners. He was 45 years old and unable to reach at the height of his golden time.
Ichiro was brought back by the Mariners with the sole intention of allowing him to play in two of the Mariners ‘ opening games against the then-Oak A’s in Tokyo Dome. But he had another thoughts. He came into camp at Peoria, Ariz., in his usual excellent shape, trying to make the staff. But day is the common master. And that was not a possibility.
The Mariners had reinstated him the past year. However, he made his return after five and a half times with the Miami Marlins and New York Yankees for only two months. Earlier in that spring trip, he pulled a correct calf muscle, but he never rounded back in good shape. They released him on May 3, 2018, with nine tunes in 44 at-bats, his.205 batting average significantly below what turned out to be a career level of.311.

Ichiro was interviewed by a few of us as his 2019 flower break came to an end. He speaks fluent English, but also utilizes a private Chinese speaker, much like Shohei Ohtani does today.
After missing a live game for almost a year, I asked Ichiro if it was upsetting to experience major league baseball.
What would you have thought if you had never written a book in a year? he responded without also waiting for the language.
” Come put it this way, Ichiro”, I said. ” I’ve written a lot more reports in the last year than you’ve taken at-bats”.
We left it like that. As it turned out, he went 2-for-24 in the spring, and his legendary career came to an end with the Dome game where he received numerous stirring ovations from fans there.
Ichiro was the most bizarre football person I’ve ever encountered while writing for a publication that will celebrate its 50th time next year. He was constantly available, but generally short bordering on a complete lack of respect. I promised to never speak with him again until after he was chosen to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Well, that day is ok. He is the front-row seat for a vote that includes a select few practical people, but it isn’t filled with the best and brightest from Major League Baseball. Since 1992, I’ve been voting, and I’ve come to the conclusion that the Hall of Fame, no the Hall of the Very Fine, should be it.

Ichiro is an all-time wonderful and a certain first-ballot choice. Despite our inquisitive marriage, he has my ballot. The initial Chinese player to be inducted into the Hall will be on July 27.
He moved to Seattle in 2001 after joining the Orix Blue Wave in the Japanese Pacific League, where he until the Yankee traded him for mid-2012.
Along the way, he enjoyed 10 consecutive months of 200 visits or more, breaking the Major League history with 262 in 2004. During that time, he smacked 2, 533 of his 3, 089 Major League visits.
Adding his 1, 278 strikes in nine months playing for the Blue Wave, Ichiro amassed 4, 367 visits and a Hall of Fame career on two countries.
People have questioned whether he will be the next majority electee in history to Mariano Rivera in the School of 2019 and if so, how likely it is. I have a question because his marriage with many of the writers who cast ballots was as unproven as mine. One or two will omit him from their ballots.
He again sat that clipping his fingernails during a long meeting at Yankee Stadium. The pressing could be heard on the digital music. In fact it was amusing, but rude. If I had treated him that way, he would have had a panic.
In his dwindling time of his first stint with the Mariners, he reached the 2, 500-hit plain during a game in Arizona. He was asked if 3, 000 was the next huge step. He didn’t want any language.
” Stupid problem”, he barked, no pulling any blows.
I turned to his translator and mused:” Well, I guess he didn’t enjoy that problem”.
When he was on his manner toward the 3, 000-hit level in 2016 with the Marlins, I asked him about his goals then that he was getting older.
” You know, I think you have your long-term goals and your short-term targets”, he said. ” It only differs by person. You might have that as a long-term target. Some men may never. That’s where we differ, I think”.
Asked about his short-term targets, Ichiro responded:” No more conversations”.

In San Diego, he combined his MLB and Nippon Professional Baseball records to tie and surpass Pete Rose’s 4,256-hit tag. The later Rose, of course, did it all in the Majors leading him to joke:
” I’m not trying to take everything away from Ichiro, he’s had a Hall of Fame job, but the next thing you know, they’ll be counting his high school hits”.
The pellets from the two now-famous touches were on the podium during the postgame presser.
Are those pellets going to Hall of Fame? I asked him.
” I don’t know”, he said. ” I’m not giving them to you, but all I know is that.”
That morning, John Boggs, his agent and company director, presented Ichiro with a pitcher Tony Gwynn when used during a job in which he had 3, 141 visits before winning in 2007 to the Hall of Fame with Cal Ripken Jr.
” Ichiro was duly impressed”, said Boggs, who likewise handled Gwynn in the same abilities.
Ichiro has always been interested in sports history. He has frequently been to the Hall of Fame under the guise of secrecy, where several Hall officials have taken him to the floor archives to see a display of intriguing artifacts. Only a small portion of those items are really on display in the gallery itself.
Barring any unforeseen bothers on Jan. 21 he also didn’t become a mystery no longer. He’ll get a part of the Hall for great. I look forward to that second interview.