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WHEN ICHIRO STEPS INTO THE BATTER'S box, no one--the pitcher, the shortstop, the fans, even his teammates--has any idea what he is planning.
"It's kind of funny," said Mariners teammate Edgar Martinez, a man with an eye for fine hitting. "We still don't know what Ichiro is going to do when he's at the plate. But this time, it's a different kind of not knowing."
At the start of the 2001 season, there was worry, with the wondering, about the new Mariner coming to another level of the game.
On Opening Day last April, 242 hits later, followed by postseason performance in which he collected 16 hits in 38 at-bats (.421), it was no longer a matter of ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki makes it big in the majors; Mariners star...