It’s not for a lack of trying, but the Phillies have failed to attract talent directly from Japan’s top league. Aoyagi, a ...

Last year was a year of transformation for Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who rallied from a midseason injury to become the Dodgers' ...

Continuing a tradition that began in 2000, Major League Baseball returns to Tokyo for the 2025 season opener, reinforcing ...

The Japan Series is a big deal for the Chicago Cubs. It’s obviously a bigger deal for Shota Imanaga. The second-year Cubs starting pitcher was formerly in the NPB, where he was one of the best ...

Inside the Dodgers’ seven-year pursuit of Rōki Sasaki, their foothold in Japan and the battle for MLB's next potential ...

As Rintaro Sasaki begins his college baseball career at Stanford with all of Japan watching, he knows there will be growing pains and struggles that will also help him grow ...

“I will play in next year’s World Baseball Classic because Mr. Kuriyama told me ... team official said. In autumn 2012, a high school baseball star indicated that he wanted to skip Nippon ...

LOS ANGELES--Prized Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki says in an Instagram post he intends to sign with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. A 23-year-old right-hander whose fastball tops 100 ...

MIAMI -- Before a raucous crowd of 36,677 at loanDepot park on Friday – the largest in Caribbean Series history and bigger than that of the 2023 World Baseball Classic final between the United States ...

Oct. 19 — Gabe Mazefsky, a disgruntled Pirates fan and policy manager for former Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, spends $600 on a seat behind home plate during Game 5 of the American League ...

Los Angeles Dodgers pitchers and catchers report to spring training in Arizona today, and thus will begin Mookie Betts' sixth ...

The Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball announced today that they ... he was never so much as league average for the rest of his time in D.C. before being shipped out to Baltimore ...