The following is an edited transcript from the Thursday press conference at which Ichiro Suzuki announced his retirement.On when he decided to end his career:
"At the end of spring training. My contract was due to expire anyway after I played at Tokyo Dome, but I wasn't performing well late into spring training and wasn't able to bounce back from that."
On whether he has any regrets:
How could I have regrets after seeing that (how the fans reacted) at the ballpark today? Of course, there's more that I could've done, but I've piled up what I could in order to deliver results. I can't say I work…READ FULL ARTICLE
