are you kidding me? if he plays 10 more years he will be way past 3000 , more like 3500 like empirestrikesback said , his average for hits per season is 192 , f*** if he keeps his current pace up he will be at 3000 in 5 years , if he plays 10 more season he only needs 100 a season , and you know as well as me he is gonna have a few more 200 hit season ahead of him too , now if he can average 150 hits for the next 10 years he would be at 3500 like i said and he has a good shot reaching that , its just the matter of staying healthy at this point, i hate the yankee's as much as anyone does on this board but you have to admit at this point he is gonna reach it farely easily
also he has over 1900 hits in his last 10 years ,so i think 1000 in the next 10 years is a piece of cake , actually make it 900 for the next 10 years ,cause he will be over 2100 by the time the year is over as he is on pace to hit 220 hits this season. a few sports writter have him breaking pete rose's record , i wouldnt go that far but id say when his career is over he will be in the top ten as far as hits