Watching This Animated Spray Chart Of Every Single One Of Ichiro's Hits Is Hauntingly Beautiful

BREAKING: Ichiro was good at baseball. Like really, really good at baseball. Even in the age of shifts and advanced analytics, there is still no way to defend that dude. I mean having multiple infield doubles in your career is as ridiculous as winning the MVP and Rookie of the Year in the same season, which Ichiro did.

Ichiro is one of those guys that if you told me he bet a teammate he would go 4-for-4 and hit the popcorn guy with a home run ball and he did it, I would believe you. And when his teammate asked why it took him until the Bottom of the 8th to hit the popcorn guy with the home run, he would say because the popcorn guy is usually slinging popped kernels in foul territory during innings 1-7. Ichiro was a baseball robot that could hit, run, and had a fucking cannon. He was put on this Earth to play hardball. And while it sucks he’s done playing, all the ridiculous stats and charts like that tweet will be fun to see come out over the next few years.

Now lets end our work day watching Ichiro highlights.