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Sorry about the line breaks at the moment amigo... read through it despite, since we felt we owed yer...Right, the K%, BB%, etc. are all fine, even a bit better than normal...The GB's are up when he's too far out in front and three-bouncing them to the 2B... this has been the case for him, when slumping, since 2002... he gets overeager and pulls the trigger a bit too quick...Ichiro has a firm corporate policy against diving for fly balls or blamming into walls too hard :- ) Bill James concurs with this baseball trend, away from risking injury for any one particular play... in baseball there are 162 games, not 16 like in the NFL, so each individual play is worth much less as a fraction of the season...