How a yearslong selection process ended with a sushi chef, a Bel Air mansion, and a text from the most famous baseball player ...

The Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professonal Baseball have agreed to a deal with right-hander Trevor Bauer, according to multiple reports out of Japan (including from Nikkan Sports).

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 ...

Suzuki's perhaps the best contact hitter in baseball history, with 1,278 hits in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball and 3,089 in MLB. His combined total of 4,367 is higher than Pete Rose's MLB ...

Nippon Ham Fighters manager Tsuyoshi Shinjo heads to a meeting of managers of the 12 Nippon Professional Baseball teams in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nippon Ham Fighters ...

Ogasawara, 27, was a NPB All-Star in 2023 and pitched in nine seasons for the Chunichi Dragons of the the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization. The Nationals have signed Shinnosuke Ogasawara ...

Prior to the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball officially posting right-hander Roki Sasaki for major league clubs last month, Major League Baseball conducted an investigation ...

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 ...

Last year, righthander Yoshinobu Yamamoto signed with the Dodgers as one of the best pitchers to come over from Nippon Pro Baseball (NPB) in several years. He did not rank on the Baseball America ...

Eighty years after Japan’s surrender in World War II ... Since Ishiba became prime minister, he has shown a demonstrably more pro-China stance ...

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 ...

During his career as a baseball player, including when he played for the Orix Buffaloes, a Japanese professional baseball team, Ichiro recorded a total of 4,367 hits, surpassing the MLB record of ...