Ichiro Suzuki Biography

Ichiro Suzuki, born October 22, 1973, is a Japanese former professional baseball outfielder who has played for 28 seasons. He played the first nine years of his career with the Orix BlueWave in Nippon Professional Baseball and the next 12 years with the Seattle Mariners in Major League Baseball. Suzuki received 17 consecutive selections as an All-Star and Gold Glove winner across his NPB and MLB career, winning nine league batting titles and being named MVP four times. He was a ten-time MLB All-Star and earned the 2007 All-Star Game MVP Award after a three-hit performance that included the event's first inside-the-park home run. Suzuki won a Gold Glove Award in each of his first 10 seasons in the majors and recorded seven hitting streaks of 20 or more games, with a high of 27. He set the MLB single-season record for hits with 262 during his career. In 2016, Suzuki reached the 3,000th hit milestone in his MLB career, becoming the 30th player to achieve this feat.