YOKOHAMA—The Yokohama DeNA BayStars completed a remarkable playoff run by trouncing ... drought among the 12 teams in Nippon Professional Baseball. BayStars manager Daisuke Miura, 50, was ...
Sasaki, who was posted by the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball on Dec. 9 ... the Blue Jays don’t stack up well here coming off a 74-88 season without a playoff win to point to since ...
Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare ...
Japanese baseball stars have almost exclusively come to MLB after playing in NPB. Morii is breaking precedent by signing with ...
Top Japanese players traditionally have signed first with Nippon Professional Baseball clubs and established their professional credentials before moving to MLB as free agents or through the MLB ...
Top Japanese players traditionally have signed first with Nippon Professional Baseball clubs and established their professional credentials before moving to MLB as free agents or through the MLB ...
The Chiba Lotte Marines, Sasaki’s Nippon Professional Baseball club, will also be owed a posting fee. However, the value of that fee will be a percentage of his signing bonus and won’t be a ...