There's not much question that while Major League Baseball remains the most prestigious and competitive league in the world, ...
Cincinnati Reds Ace Hunter Greene Ranked Among MLB's Best in Key Stat Last Season. Greene pitched a career-high 150 1/3 ...
Ichiro Suzuki was one of the faces of baseball during the 2000s after making the jump from the Japanese League to join the ...
He was also the first rookie pitcher to start an All-Star game since Hideo Nomo of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995.
Left-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the country's confidence in a period of national malaise. Tsutsui termed Ichiro a “great cultural ...
Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts acknowledges challenges in competing with the Los Angeles Dodgers for top Japanese talent.
On the heels of a rookie season for the ages, Pittsburgh Pirates star Paul Skenes could be in line to one-up his performance ...
Roki Sasaki could be the greatest Japanese pitcher ever. He hopes the Dodgers can turn him into just that, even if it means Shohei Ohtani outshines him.
The Transpacific Exchange of the Game” will explore the longstanding exchange of teams and players in the more than 150 years ...
The reigning World Series champions have entrenched themselves in the Japanese market not just through their history of signing Japanese stars in Hideo Nomo, Hiroki Kuroda and Kenta Maeda but ...
He has better control than Shohei Ohtani had at the same stage of his career. He is more athletic than Hideo Nomo was. He throws harder than Yu Darvish. Roki Sasaki is the most talented pitcher ...