The Giants have their eyes on one of Japan's best pitchers. San Francisco is one of the MLB teams evaluating longtime Nippon Professional Baseball league ace Tomoyuki Sugano, who is expected to sign ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers have been masters at finding pitching in the Japanese market. Now, they are reportedly pursuing a ...

The Seibu Lions have agreed to post right-hander Kona Takahashi for Major League teams this winter, according to a report from Nikkai Sports. Takahashi turns 29 in February, and he has a 2.95 ERA, ...

TOKYO — At a time when premier Japanese baseball players are coming to the U.S. more frequently, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said Monday he does not expect Japan’s top league, ...

November 10: The previously unspecified arm injury that caused Sasaki to miss time in 2024 was reportedly “a bout with shoulder fatigue,” according to The Athletic’s Will Sammon. The young ...

Editor's Note: The story below originally ran in November, after Roki Sasaki's NPB team pledged to post the Japanese star pitcher. Sasaki announced Friday he was signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Left-hander Shinnosuke Ogasawara is looking to move to the majors, and as per a report from Yahoo Sports Japan (Japanese language link), he’ll ask the Chunichi Dragons to make him available to MLB ...

[Kagoshima (Japan) = Reporter Na Yuri of Sports Chosun] Why did we come to the KBO League with this career. SSG Landers have hired a Japanese 'big' Asian quarter player. SSG officially announced on ...

Get ready, MLB fans and fantasy managers. In part due to their careers, in part because of NPB’s recent surge of top-level ...