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Ichiro to stay with Miami for 2016 MLB season

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Oct 4, 2015; Philadelphia, PA, USA; Miami Marlins right fielder Ichiro Suzuki (51) throws a pitch during …

(Reuters) - Miami Marlins' Japanese outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, who owns the Major League Baseball record for consecutive 200-hit seasons, has signed a one-year deal to stay with the team for the 2016 campaign, the team said on Tuesday.

Suzuki, who in 2001 became the first Japanese position player in MLB history, will open next season 65 hits shy of becoming the 30th member of the 3,000-hit club.

The 41-year-old outfielder is coming off his first campaign with the Marlins in which he had 91 hits in 398 at-bats along with a .