When Bryan Woo gets to the field every day, Ichiro Suzuki is already there. Taking batting practice. Shagging fly balls. Playing catch. He hangs around after too, offering any advice he can to the current generation of Mariners players.

“Lou Piniella was very skeptical,” said Larry Stone, a Seattle Times baseball writer who has covered Ichiro’s career extensively. “That spring training, Ichiro started off not pulling the ball, not driving the ball. And Lou was like, ‘Who is this guy? When is he going to show me something?’”

Ichiro will transition into a role deemed "Special Assistant to the Chairman," where he will work with the Mariners' major-league staff and front office. But his agent insists Ichiro is not retiring.

There he was, in the flesh, at the Otesaga Resort Hotel on the eve of his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame: Ichiro Suzuki himself. So strong is Ichiro’s aura that even two of the game

This weekend, Mariners legend Ichiro Suzuki will become the first Asian player inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Ichiro announced his retirement after a two-game series in Tokyo, Japan against the Oakland A’s on March 21, 2019. Seattle requires at least five active seasons in a Mariners uniform and two ...

When Steven Kwan was growing up in the Bay Area, he’d spend summers with his Japanese grandmother. And every day, the NHK network would be on the television.

Ichiro's agent, John Boggs, said that Ichiro is not retiring and may still play in 2019, when the Mariners open the regular season in Japan. Ichiro said he envisions himself playing again.

On Sunday, Arizona Diamondbacks star Corbin Carroll witnessed one of his heroes being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Ichiro Suzuki looks back at his career journey and accomplishments as he's inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.