There’s no one quite like Ichiro Suzuki. The 43-year-old Miami Marlins’ outfielder is the oldest position player in Major League Baseball (and only 51 days younger than oldest active player overall Bartolo Colon), but he’s still working at a level that few half his age can match, spending most of his offseason in the batting cage and his own personal weight room. He told Clark Spencer of The Miami Herald that won’t change anytime soon, either; he wants to play to 50, and he doesn’t want to think about post-baseball life:
Suzuki has no intention of stopping anytime soon, anytime before he turns 50.
“Nobody knows what the future holds,” Suzuki said. “But the way I feel, how I’m thinking, I feel like nothing can stop me from doing it.”
Why rest now?
“When you retire from baseball, you have until the day you die to rest,” he said.
And when the day finally comes to retire?
“I think I’ll just die,” he said.