COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- On Sunday afternoon, Seattle Mariners legend Ichiro Suzuki will take his place in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He'll be the third Mariners player inducted into Hall of Fame with the M's emblem on their cap, joining Ken Griffey ...

Soon-to-be Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki shares why sitting out much of 2018 with the Seattle Mariners was one of his biggest accomplishments.

“Lou Piniella was very skeptical,” said Larry Stone, a Seattle Times baseball writer who has covered Ichiro’s career extensively. “That spring training, Ichiro started off not pulling the ball, not driving the ball. And Lou was like, ‘Who is this guy? When is he going to show me something?’”