Many baseball insiders wondered why Roki Sasaki chose this offseason to make the leap from Japan to Major League Baseball.

Ogasawara, 27, pitched in part of nine seasons for the Chunichi Dragons of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball ... in North America these days, as the league average has been in the 22-23% ...

Munenori Kawasaki, who competed for the Seattle Mariners in 2012, will be representing Japan in the international competition ...

Though now eligible to pitch in MLB after a two-season ban under the league's domestic violence policy, Trevor Bauer will ...

When he had moved there for school, he figured he was putting his baseball fandom on the backburner. He had fallen in love ...

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

The Los Angeles Dodgers have quickly become the most hated franchise in Major League Baseball over the past few seasons.

Roki Sasaki said he looks forward to starting his Major League Baseball career in Los Angeles after signing a deal with the ...

The splitter is on the rise in Major League Baseball, and the Dodgers are cornering the market. Splitters were thrown more often in 2024 than in any other season of the pitch tracking era, which goes ...

Bauer, who last played in MLB with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2021, pitched for the Bay Stars in 2023, when he recorded an 11 ...

Ichiro will go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball’s all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in Japan) — more even than Pete Rose's 4,256. He broke George Sisler’s single ...

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he ...