There's not much question that while Major League Baseball remains the most prestigious and competitive league in the world, ...

Yunior Marte has been released by the Mariners to sign with the NPB's Chunichi Dragons. Read more at MLB Trade Rumors.

Roki Sasaki's signing with the Dodgers opens the floodgates for a new wave of Japanese talent coming over to MLB.

His dramatic departure — and two others that followed, featuring NPB players Hideki Irabu and Alfonso Soriano — motivated the two leagues to implement the posting system. That system has ...

Japanese baseball stars have almost exclusively come to MLB after playing in NPB. Morii is breaking precedent by signing with the A's.

Morii is forgoing the more traditional path for Japanese players who end up playing for an NPB team before making the leap to Major League Baseball as a free agent or through the MLB-NPB posting ...

The Dodgers cemented their status as the preferred MLB destination for NPB stars and transformed their rotation into a Mount Rushmore of Japanese pitching luminaries by winning the Rōki Sasaki ...

Top Japanese players traditionally have signed first with ... before moving to MLB as free agents or through the MLB-NPB posting process. Morii, a shortstop and right-handed pitcher, joined ...

Former Cleveland Indians starting pitcher Trevor Bauer resigned with the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league. Former Major League Baseball star pitcher Trevor ...

During the gestation period for the place that would become baseball’s sacred shrine, Time Magazine, the New York Times and ...

Shotaro Morii is an 18-year-old two-way player who is widely considered one ... made the paradigm-shifting choice to bypass the NPB Draft in favor of enrolling as a freshman at Stanford University.