Ichiro Suzuki, often known simply as Ichiro, (born October 22, 1973, in Kasugai, Nishikasugai, Aichi Prefecture, Japan) is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Seattle Mariners. Ichiro's rights were won by the Seattle Mariners from the Orix Blue Wave and he signed a contract with them. He became the first Japanese-born everyday position player in the major leagues.
He has had ten consecutive 200-hit seasons, the longest streak by any player and on November 9, 2010 that Ichiro had won his tenth consecutive Rawlings Gold Glove Award as voted on by the coaches and managers in the MLB. Continuing the custom he began in Japan, he uses his given name "Ichiro" on the back of his uniform instead of his family name.