Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball. He's among many Japanese stars who have left to ...

The Major League Baseball season kicks off Tuesday night at the Tokyo Dome when Shohei Ohtani and the defending World Series ...

Around the time that Roki Sasaki made his long-awaited decision to sign with the Dodgers, the city of Los Angeles was reeling ...

The Roki Sasaki splitter is here, and it might be even nastier than we thought. Sasaki was all-around electric in his Dodgers ...

No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...

Newest Dodgers star Roki Sasaki threw three scoreless innings in his spring training debut Tuesday night, striking out five ...

Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for Seattle, the impact of Japanese players in Major ...

Last season, 204 pitchers averaged at least 94 mph on at least 200 four-seamers. Sasaki’s fastball would rank last in spin rate. (MLB baseballs are bigger and less tacky than NPB baseballs, allowing ...

Roki Sasaki rolled 99-mph fastballs off his fingers, while mixing in splitters and sliders to keep Cincinnati Reds batters baffled in his Los Angeles Dodgers spring training debut in Phoenix.

Four months after I gave a scouting report culled with the help of executives and scouts on what to expect from Roki Sasaki—one of ... that of the Seattle Mariners ace righthander.

More than the fastball that sat at 98 mph or the three shutout innings, the story of Roki Sasaki's debut as ... four years with the Chiba Lotte Mariners, Sasaki reinforced why Los Angeles is ...

PHOENIX — As free-agent acquisitions go, Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki generated similar hype ... spring debut in an 11-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners, offering a first glimpse at the wicked ...