{"id":4485,"date":"2013-08-22T16:50:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T20:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=4485"},"modified":"2013-08-22T16:53:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T20:53:16","slug":"pete-rose-trashes-ichiros-4000-career-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2013\/08\/22\/pete-rose-trashes-ichiros-4000-career-hits\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Rose: Ichiro will never be all-time hit king"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4486\" alt=\"peterose\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/peterose.jpg\" width=\"635\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/peterose.jpg 635w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/peterose-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2013\/08\/peterose-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ichiro Suzuki collected his 4,000th career hit.<\/p>\n<p>In case you were wondering what Pete Rose, Major League Baseball&#8217;s all-time hit leader, though about the milestone&#8230;. wonder no more.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s still 600 hits away from catching [teammate] Derek Jeter,&#8221; Rose told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/2013\/08\/22\/ichiro-suzuki-4000-hits-pete-rose-yankees-japan\/2686497\/\" target=\"_blank\">USA TODAY Sports<\/a>, &#8220;so how can he catch me?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rose discounts the 1,278 hits that Suzuki accumulated while playing in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Of course Rose went as far to suggest that his 427 career hits in the minor leagues be counted too if Suzuki&#8217;s hits from Japan are counted in their career totals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, if we&#8217;re counting professional hits,&#8221; says Rose, the major-league hit leader at 4,256, &#8220;then add on my 427 career hits in the minors. I was a professional then, too.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Ichiro record his 4,000th professional hit:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/wapc.mlb.com\/shared\/video\/embed\/embed.html?content_id=29917839&amp;width=600&amp;height=336&amp;property=mlb\" height=\"336\" width=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The all-time hit King said he was nothing putting down Suzuki&#8217;s milestone and even said he was deserving of the Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Listen, if I&#8217;m voting today for the Hall of Fame,&#8221; Rose says, &#8220;Ichiro has got my vote. He&#8217;s got the [10] Gold Gloves. The golden arm. A lot of hits. There&#8217;s really nothing wrong with his game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Suzuki could be a Hall of Famer but he will never be the games all-time hit king in the eyes of Rose. And Rose is unlikely to be alone in having those thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ichiro Suzuki collected his 4,000th career hit. In case you were wondering what Pete Rose, Major League Baseball&#8217;s all-time hit leader, though about the milestone&#8230;. wonder no more. &#8220;He&#8217;s still 600 hits away from catching [teammate] Derek Jeter,&#8221; Rose told USA TODAY Sports, &#8220;so how can he catch me?&#8221; Rose discounts the 1,278 hits that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[449,450],"coauthors":[6],"class_list":{"0":"post-4485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-ichrio-suzuki","9":"tag-pete-rose"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4485"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}