The Phillies have been trying to get into the Japanese baseball market for years. They hope Koyo Aoyagi is the first step.
Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed ...
Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani has made history by signing a ... the loser appears to be Japan's domestic baseball league, Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Mr Whiting says NPB only ...
Indeed, the 22-year-old had a night at the plate that others can only dream about, making Nippon Professional Baseball history by hitting five home runs in five consecutive at-bats. In Major ...