Bonus chart!

After yesterday’s chart of hits leaders through time, I wondered how it would look if we counted Ichiro Suzuki’s hits in Japanese baseball and American baseball. The result is below.

Should we do this? No. Japanese baseball is a high-level league, but no respectable analyst would say JPB is the equivalent of MLB. It is still fun to imagine, though, what would’ve happened if Ichiro had signed with the Seattle Mariners in 1992 instead of the Orix Blue Wave.