Japan woke up to good news Friday as Shohei Ohtani became the first Major League Baseball player with at least 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a season. 2 of 8| A pedestrian takes a photo of an extra edition of the Sports Nippon newspaper reporting on the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shoh...
The article looks at the start of the Major League Baseball (MLB) season for 2008. The season is opening in Japan for, according to the MLB commissioner Bud Selig, the third time. Selig says the trip...
In impact of talent from top leagues in Japan and Korea, the 2023-2024 offseason was one for the ages in Major League Baseball. Ten months before he dominated the Yankees in the World Series, Yoshinobu Yamamoto signed a 12-year, $325 million contract with the Dodgers. Shota Imanaga was a...
In the present day, NPB is widely recognized as the world's top baseball league outside of MLB. Baseball is an institution in Japan at every level, from the youth teams that routinely win the Little League World Series to the legendary summer Koshien high-school tournaments to the hugely p...
and any break from that schedule can significantly throw them off for April. The next step for the World Baseball Classic is for major league teams to let pitchers prioritize this tournament while it's happening -- so long as they're careful enough to avoid injury -- then simply recalibrate...
Nov 09 (NHK) - Japanese Major League baseball star Ohtani Shohei says he plans to donate 60,000 gloves to elementary schools across Japan. The two-way player announced his plan on Instagram in Japanese and English, with an image of a glove and himself playing catch. An accompanying message...
CHIBA--Japanese ace Roki Sasaki will be available to Major League Baseball teams this offseason. The Chiba Lotte Marines announced Saturday they have chosen to start the process of moving the pitcher to a big league club in North America via the posting system. ...
LOS ANGELES--Game Two of the World Series drew 15.9 million average viewers in Japan, the most ever for a postseason Major League Baseball game in the country, the league said on Monday. Japan's obsession with national hero Shohei Ohtani combined with a start on the mound by his Japanese ...
Japan woke up to good news Friday as Shohei Ohtani became the first Major League Baseball player with at least 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in a season. Published [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year]Published 5:03 PM GMT+8, September...
TOKYO -- Major League Baseball (MLB) and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) jointly announced today the expected MLB roster for the 2018 Japan All-Star Series with Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). The roster, which is subject to change, accompanies this press release. The...