evidence: Former Seattle Mariners baseball player Ichiro Suzuki meets with the news media, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, in Seattle the day before his induction into the Mariners' Hall of Fame. (AP Photo) [...] Three years removed from his last game as a player with the Seattle Mariners in his home country of Japan, Suzuki hasn’t lost that competitive drive. [...] Suzuki spent the first 11 seasons of his major league career with the Mariners before getting traded to the New York Yankees midway through the 2012 season. Suzuki played parts of three seasons with the Yankees, three more in Miami before returning to Seattle to close out his career.