If MLB can get Japan to follow all its teams, “We do believe there are payoffs in the B’s: billions,” commissioner Rob Manfred said.

About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the World Series champion Los ...

Manfred met with his NPB counterpart Sadayuki Sakakibara on Sunday, the second of two days of games between MLB teams and NPB teams.

The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.

The four exhibition games between the MLB and NPB clubs showed that the well of talent in Japan runs deeper than the nation’s ...

It has paid off in a big way, as the likes of Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki and surely more to come were ...

The warmup games will be followed by the MLB season-opening series between the ... a 20-year-old left-hander who has not won a game in his seven-game NPB career, shut down a Chicago lineup that ...

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The Philadelphia Phillies are just 12 days away from Opening Day of the 2025 MLB season. As the date approaches, the team has made another round of roster moves. Seven players were announced as ...

Before they transitioned to MLB, outfielder Seiya Suzuki and starting ... During that time, he made five NPB All-Star teams, won Central League batting titles in 2019 and 2021, and earned five ...

Hanshin Tigers prospect Keito Mombetsu threw five perfect innings to lead his team to a 3-0 win over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday in the first of four exhibition games between MLB and Nippon ...

This file photo shows Nippon Professional Baseball Commissioner Sadayuki Sakakibara speaking in Tokyo on Nov. 20, 2024. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nippon Professional Baseball executives and ...