Criticism around San Diego Padres slugger Luis Arraez came in on Thursday when former Mets general manager Steve Phillips brought his one-dimensional hitting to the fore.

307 average. Just six players in MLB history have won four or more straight batting titles, per Elias. They are Ty Cobb (1907 ...

Seeing the number featured in the ballpark with the rest of the retired numbers is cool and it's always an opportunity to ...

353 batting average, a .421 on-base percentage ... maybe win a Home Run Derby. Tony Gwynn, similarly statured at 5-foot-11 and 200ish pounds, spoke of conversations with Ted Williams where his ...

The first time Ichiro Suzuki set foot into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. was nearly a quarter-century ago, back on Nov. 12, 2001.

It’s tempting to say Ichiro Suzuki, with his detached sense of cool, record-breaking hitting prowess and 28 seasons of excellence on both sides of the globe, was made for the Baseball Hall of Fame.

187 batting average, the lowest since 1900 ... perhaps eclipsing the 82,000 in attendance for Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. in 2007 – but there will no bigger star than Suzuki.

Fangraphs' David Laurila compared Abreu and Ichiro Suzuki’s careers back in 2022 — and wrote, “Unless you place an especially-high value on hit totals and batting ... (69.4), Tony Gwynn ...

The two-time batting champ also led the American League ... when an estimated 87,500 turned out for Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken, Jr., Ichiro will have another record to add to his glittering ...

Arraez became the first Padre to win a batting title since Tony Gwynn in 1997. He also won a Silver Slugger after each of those seasons. What was the difference? From the look of his stats ...