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Ichiro Suzuki: High Mental Stress, May Leave Seattle Mariners

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Updated: January 9, 2012
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Ichiro Suzuki has always been one of the more stoic major superstars in the world, but losing and seeing his streak of 10 seasons with 200 hits come to an abrupt end was enough to cause the greatest hitter in the world some frustration.  He has always kept a controlled buffer with the media, but recently he decided to open up and reveal to the world — in his opinion — just what went wrong last season.

Commenting on his own self-imposed pressure to be the best hitter in the world, Ichiro recently stated, “I felt desperate last season. That doesn’t happen to me very often. Mental stress is a lot worse than physical stress. Yes my skin gets dry but it’s a lame conclusion to blame everything on age. People are quick to point to age. Those kinds of people don’t interest me.”

I expect Ichiro Suzuki to bounce back this upcoming season because he certainly wants to prove last season was a fluke, however, if age was the reason for his decline, then it is realistic to expect that he may be interested in leaving the Seattle Mariners soon.

After all this great Hall Of Famer deserves a better opportunity to win a Commissioner’s Trophy, before he retires.

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  • Courtgolf

    Wow – talk about a completely corrupt headline.  Nowhere has Ichiro or his representation said that he is thinking about leaving Seattle.  And this idea that just because a player is “great” means that he “deserves” a championship is completely adle minded.  Shameful, yet typical, modern media writing.

    • Gmoneyman

      do you think ichio doesn’t deserve to get a championship? I agree that it is misleading but lets be reasonable Ichiro is a great average hitter. Nobody else has 10 streight 200 hit seasons and He still has more golden gloves than anybody in Mariner’s history

  • Baseballguy67

    Misleading article. The writer has no clue what he’s doing. Great site, terrible writer. He should be fired!

  • Ace76

    Actually this idiot probably has a pretty good idea of what he’s doing – bs’ing new and lame rumors – maybe someone put him up to it.
    He may be this guy: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lewis-dawson/38/a29/123
    Probably some cronie of Kenny smarmburgur rosenthall, newyawk ophile who every other article has to write about how somebody better trade a known commodity to the spankees; Felix, Lee, you name it for some incredible nobodies with a lot of potential.