Santander, 30, slashed .235/.308/.506 for the Orioles last season, good for a 134 OPS+. He trailed only Aaron Judge and ...
Ichiro Suzuki was among the few Japanese players who transitioned well from Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball to Major League Baseball.
The National Baseball ... Valuable Player awards in the same season. He led the American League in batting average, hits and stolen bases. Suzuki went on to play parts of 19 seasons in MLB with ...
Ichiro Suzuki is the Japanese Zen master who was so dedicated to baseball that ... enjoyed an electric MLB rookie season, being named the American League's Most Valuable Player.
"Americans hadn't seen that kind of baseball played since the 1920s in the era of Ty Cobb." Ichiro was already 27 when he joined the Mariners in 2001. He enjoyed an electric MLB rookie season, being ...