Rōki Sasaki, of the Lotte Marines, pitches against the Rakuten Eagles during a Pacific League baseball game in Chiba on July 1. (Kyodo) He could be the best pitching prospect to ever come from the ...

Is Shohei Ohtani pitching in World Baseball Classic for Japan? No, Ohtani will not be pitching for Japan in the World Baseball Classic. He will only hit for the defending WBC champions and will be ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers are reportedly trying to lure a teenage pitching star from Japan away from the Nippon Professional Baseball draft, as the club looks to sign 17-year-old right-hander Shoki Oda ...

The Chicago Cubs, if one were to judge from the headlines being generated, are a whisker away from signing Japanese pitching import Tatsuya Imai. In multiple media accounts, Chicago is listed as a ...

TOKYO — As many MLB teams scramble to find more pitching this offseason, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shota Imanaga, and Yuki Matsui are the names from Japan receiving attention. Somehow, though, perhaps Japan ...

While the Los Angeles Dodgers aren’t scheduled to start a new season internationally for the first time since 2023, Spring Training is still going to have a wrinkle because of the 2026 World Baseball ...

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.—Kodai Senga’s decision to leave a successful career in Japanese baseball for a five-year, $75 million contract with the New York Mets came with a remarkable challenge far beyond ...

Nov 20 (Reuters) - Yoshinobu Yamamoto is poised to become Major League Baseball's next big Japanese star after the 25-year-old pitching sensation posted as a free agent on Monday. The right-hander is ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - NOVEMBER 10: Pitcher Kohdai Senga #41 of Japan throwsin the fifth inning during the international friendly match between Japan and Mexico at the Tokyo Dome on November 10, 2016 in Tokyo ...

Shohei Ohtani will once again be one of the top players in the World Baseball Classic with Team Japan. The Los Angeles Dodgers superstar designated hitter/pitcher helped Japan to its first World ...