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The amazing part about Ichiro is he already had a long career in Japan before arriving in MLB. If you either add in his Japan stats or do some math using his current pace to get those 10 missing years, he would easily be holding a few more MLB records and be among the upper elite for hitters (and maybe fielders).
It also helps that his playing style favors the importance of a hit and base speed over power slugging like most big name MLB players.
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