Pushing Forty

Ichiro can do it all, but time is not on his side.

Ichiro Suzuki has been in a season-long slump. Certainly so by his Olympian standards. His current .269 batting average is something like 60 points below his career in North America. He is somewhere around 38. I (Evander) have little doubt, Ichiro will be enshrined in Cooperstown when his major-league career is over. In some ways, he is the baseball equivalent of The Little Master, Sachin Tendulkar. Both are wiry. Both have defied age (Tendulkar also being 38).

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