How many hits would Ichiro have if he came up in 1992?  Rich
Schultz  Ichiro's had a long, long career, and he's sorta
talented. What would have happened if he'd started his career in
a Mariners uniform?  There is a mini-controversy about Ichiro's
4,000th hit.  Clarification: There is a dumb mini-controversy
about Ichiro's 4,000th hit. On one side, there are the people
who think it's pretty neat that Ichiro has collected 4,000 hits
between Japan and the majors.  On the other side, there are
people who are upset that other people think it's pretty neat.
Because some of those hits weren't in the majors, which
nullifies the "neat" and makes the round number uninteresting, I
guess? Look, I don't know.  But I can't stand mini-
controversies. They mini-threaten to mini-tear us apart. So I've
come up with a solution. I'm going to go through Ichiro's
Japanese stats and figure out exactly how many hits he would
have had if he were playing in the majors at the time.  The
first thing I did was run some SQL database queri