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But having eaten the cake of Ichiro's HOF career from 2001-2010, I have a hunch that we're going to be in for three years of overpay at the end...
It's not just a home-country thing for Yamauchi-san; the Yanks go through it with Jeter, and am sure you could think of lots of franchise icons who bled their teams for several years after the elite production was kaput...
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Personally expect Ichiro's AVG to bounce back in 2012-14 as he gets his head together, but this "WAR Grid" makes it abundantly clear that you shouldn't expect more than 2.0, 2.5 WAR out of a 39-year-old ... and that is assuming you are talking a HOF 39-year-old...