Baseball is the ultimate numbers game. Always has been, always will be.
Start a debate about the sport, and the argument will eventually devolve into a comparison of statistics and formulas.
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A decade of excellence: Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki (top row, 2001-05, left to right; bottom row, 2006-10, left to right) is seen collecting his 200th hit in each of his 10 Major League Baseball seasons, including a fifth-inning single on Thursday in Toronto. | KYODO PHOTOS
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