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NO BIG UNIT? NO A-ROD? NO PROBLEM, NOW THAT SEATTLE'S GOT ICHIRO

By Jeff Bradley

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Ichiro has great feet. In baseball scoutspeak, "great feet" means that a player moves smoothly and has exceptional balance and body control. It can be applied to hitting. When a guy can cover the plate from inside corner to outside corner without tilling the soil in the batter's box, that's great feet. It can be applied to baserunning. A player who can seemingly go from zero to full-speed without spinning out, cut the bags with surgical preci sion and slide without putting his knees and hips in ...

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