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1.  K/BB, I'm sure, worsens for pitchers working from the stretch, a little bit.  Ichiro's EYE goes up, a lot.
It's like saying, Joe Shlabotnik hit .202 on the road and .425 at home last year.  "But doesn't everybody hit better at home?"   
If 0.40 is the norm with bases empty and 0.47 the norm with men on, then 0.39 vs 0.59 is clearly a wide split.  
That's 11 years' data; last year Ichiro was 0.25 vs 0.93, even if you clear out the IBB's.
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2.  It's been common knowledge, since 2001, that Ichiro is "passive" with RBI available.  If you've listened to an M's broadcast, you've heard them complain about this.
The EYE ratios confirm the change in Ichiro's approach, but watching a ballgame helps, too.
The mind's eye remembers all those times that Ichiro whaled away with nobody on, and worked the pitcher when up during a rally.
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3.  We're always assuming here that all of these 168 IBB's occurred after 0-0 counts, rather than after 2-0 or 3-0 counts.
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4.  There is no doubt that IBB's are a huge part of Ichiro's awesome production when he comes up during the middle of a rally.  Let's give him some credit for that fact.
After all, if David Ortiz would lay down bunts against the shift and pick up 20 hits in 23 AB's that way, we'd hardly tell him that the hits don't count.