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Posted By: warshawlaw

Hitting .300 is very hard to do. Hitting better than .300 every year over a long career is very impressive. I think he rates quite a bit better than most people make him out to be. Ichiro's 162 game average over the first five years of his career is:

692 AB 114 R 230 H 27 Doubles 8 Triples 11 Homers 63 RBI 39 SB 47 Walks .332 BA .377 OB%

I see a HOFer in the making not a Mickey Rivers. Put anyone worth a damn in the 2-3-4 spots and the guy's gonna score 140 runs a year.