As bad as Hideki Matsuyama’s performance at The Players Championship began Thursday morning, one announcer used an even worse trope to describe the golfer’s start to the round. The tournament teed off ...

My gut reaction to the Hideki Matsui signing is "Who knows?" We know he hit 50 home runs in Japan last season, but we also know he batted just .161 with no homers in 31 at-bats against major ...

Hideki Matsui broke the mold of Japanese baseball players moving to MLB when he arrived on the scene for the Yankees in 2003.

Along the way, Ohtani became the first Japanese-born player to score a regular-season run at the Tokyo Dome since former New York Yankees star Hideki Matsui in 2004. In fairness, Major League ...