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He was the fifth player in MLB history to start a career with two 200-hit seasons. He got off to a hot start, but a late-season slump drove his batting average down to .321, 29 points below his batting average as a rookie. Suzuki finished the season second in the AL in hits, fourth in batting average, and fourth in steals.
Josh Gibson has the highest career batting average in major league history with .372. In baseball, the batting average (BA) is defined by the number of hits divided by at bats. It is usually reported to three decimal places and pronounced as if it were multiplied by 1,000: a player with a batting average of .300 is "batting three-hundred."
Ichiro Suzuki holds the most franchise records as of the end of the 2012 season, with ten, including best single-season batting average, most career hits, and most career triples. He is followed by Edgar Martínez , who holds nine records, including best career on-base percentage and the single-season walk record.
Hits don't translate from the Japanese league to the Major Leagues one-to-one. Ichiro is not baseball's hit king. But he doesn't need to be.
Josh Gibson, who played 510 game in the Negro League, holds the record for highest batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging in a career. Barry Bonds holds the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season.
Nori Aoki, an active NPB player, has a career NPB batting average of .316 as of April 2023. [47] Ichiro Suzuki batted .353 in NPB, [48] but does not have enough NPB career at-bats to qualify for the league's title. Sadaharu Oh batting average of .355 in 1973 season. Randy Bass had a batting average of .389 in 1986 season.
Josh Gibson of the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords, is recognized as the MLB all-time batting champion, with a career batting average of .372. [11] Gibson amassed career totals of 838 hits in 2,255 at-bats and 628 games, [12] and is also the MLB all-time career leader in Slugging (SLG) percentage and On-Base Plus Slugging (OPS) percentage.
Ichiro Suzuki is 50 years old and has been retired from MLB since 2019, but he can still hit home runs that break windows. (Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images) (Steph Chambers via Getty Images)