Editing Ichiro Suzuki (section)

====2005====
During the off-season, then-manager [[Bob Melvin]]'s contract was not extended and the Mariners brought in [[Mike Hargrove]] as the new manager with a contract through 2007. It was Hargrove who had predicted that Suzuki would be no better than "a fourth outfielder on [an American] major league team" back when Suzuki was still in Japan.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/20/sports/20iht-base.t_9.html | title=Taken by Sosa, Japanese Star Dreams of Playing in U.S. | work=International Herald Tribune | last=Noonan | first=Tim | date=20 November 1998 | access-date=23 August 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307232747/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/20/sports/20iht-base.t_9.html | archive-date=7 March 2016 | url-status=live }}</ref> Speculation started that Hargrove and Suzuki did not get along very well in the season.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/10091 |title=Did Hargrove, Ichiro not get along? |publisher=FanNation |access-date=31 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705000744/http://fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/10091 |archive-date=5 July 2007 }}</ref>

In 2005, Suzuki had his second worst year in his MLB career to date, collecting only 206 hits, the lowest total of his career to that point. However, he reached the plateau of a .300 batting average, 100+ runs, 30+ steals, and 200+ hits for the fifth straight season. That allowed Suzuki to become the first player to collect 200 hits per season in each of his first five years in the major leagues. Only [[Willie Keeler]], [[Wade Boggs]], [[Chuck Klein]], [[Al Simmons]], and [[Charlie Gehringer]] had five consecutive 200-hit seasons at any point in their careers. During the season, he accumulated 1,000 career hits, reaching the career milestone faster than any player in MLB history.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/story?id=2417408|title=Pujols ties Helton for second fastest to 1,000 hits|date=21 April 2006|agency=AP|work=ESPN.com|access-date=17 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810054941/http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2417408|archive-date=10 August 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> Suzuki hit a career-high 15 home runs. In the off-season, 

Suzuki played himself in ''[[Furuhata Ninzaburō]]'', a Japanese ''[[Columbo (TV series)|Columbo]]''-like TV drama that he loves. In the drama, he kills a person and is arrested.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-05-10 |title=古畑任三郎、異色の犯人イチロー 三谷幸喜が驚いた質問：朝日新聞 |trans-title=Renzaburo Furuhata, a question that surprised Koki Mitani of the unusual criminal Ichiro |url=https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASN595RSNN58UPQJ00C.html |access-date=2025-03-17 |website=朝日新聞 |language=ja}}</ref>