There's not much question that while Major League Baseball remains the most prestigious and competitive league in the world, ...

Ichiro Suzuki was one of the faces of baseball during the 2000s after making the jump from the Japanese League to join the ...

Left-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the country's confidence in a period of national malaise. Tsutsui termed Ichiro a “great cultural ...

On the heels of a rookie season for the ages, Pittsburgh Pirates star Paul Skenes could be in line to one-up his performance ...

Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts acknowledges challenges in competing with the Los Angeles Dodgers for top Japanese talent.

It’s been six years since the last MLB game in Tokyo, when Ichiro Suzuki bid a tear-jerking goodbye to baseball. It feels ...

Roki Sasaki could be the greatest Japanese pitcher ever. He hopes the Dodgers can turn him into just that, even if it means Shohei Ohtani outshines him.

Paul Skenes was everything the Pittsburgh Pirates and baseball world could have expected and then some en route to winning ...

The reigning World Series champions have entrenched themselves in the Japanese market not just through their history of signing Japanese stars in Hideo Nomo, Hiroki Kuroda and Kenta Maeda but ...

He has better control than Shohei Ohtani had at the same stage of his career. He is more athletic than Hideo Nomo was. He throws harder than Yu Darvish. Roki Sasaki is the most talented pitcher ...