{"id":672656,"date":"2026-04-10T18:42:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672656\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T18:42:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T18:42:33","slug":"mariners-to-unveil-ichiro-statue-outside-t-mobile-park-to-celebrate-franchise-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672656\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners to unveil Ichiro statue outside T-Mobile Park to celebrate franchise icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SEATTLE \u2014 After <a href=\"https:\/\/komonews.com\/sports\/nikos-sports-zone\/seattle-mariners-announcement-statue-ichiro-suzuki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">retiring his number 51 last season<\/a>, the Mariners will unveil a statue celebrating the iconic Ichiro Suzuki Friday.<\/p>\n<p>And of course, it will feature Ichiro&#8217;s iconic batting pose.<\/p>\n<p>Just like the number of Mariners who have their jerseys retired, Ichiro&#8217;s will become the third player with a statue outside T-Mobile Park and fourth overall, including legendary announcer Dave Niehaus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2026, we will honor the most prolific hitter our game has ever seen,&#8221; said Mariners Chairman John Stanton last season. &#8220;The man who holds the all-time record for hits in a season; the man who has more global hits than any other player in the history of baseball.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 After retiring his number 51 last season, the Mariners will unveil a statue celebrating the iconic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2392],"tags":[5,620,4,619,65,3235],"class_list":{"0":"post-672656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-mariners","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mariners","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-mariners","13":"tag-seattlemariners"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116381885715672597","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}