The Transpacific Exchange of the Game” will explore the longstanding exchange of teams and players in the more than 150 years ...

Whiting used the pitcher Hideo Nomo’s transition as a guide and came up with something like a .285 average with 11 home runs and 25 stolen bases. “Some stupid formula I dreamed up,” Whiting ...

While pitchers, including Hideo Nomo, had already played in the US, Suzuki made seismic waves as the first Japanese position player to sign with a major league club. Winner of the American League ...

An all-time international baseball icon will get his day in the Cooperstown sun this July, alongside pitchers CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.

But while the likes of Hideo Nomo (and, much earlier ... Only a handful of closers have earned Cooperstown plaques and Wagner didn’t even reach 1,000 career innings. If some fans think that ...

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 ...

When Ichiro is voted in, he will become the third player in history to enter Cooperstown with a Mariners hat on his plaque ... Buffaloes ace Hideo Nomo is taking a shutout into the 8th inning ...

Yet in 2001, Japanese impact players in the bigs were entirely pitchers, with Hideo Nomo shooting to superstardom a few years earlier. But hitters? Ichiro was MLB's first Japanese-born position ...

Some baseball fans today may not be familiar with Hideo Nomo, but he was a well-known pitcher during his time in MLB. Before coming to the big leagues, he was a star pitcher in the Nippon Professional ...

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 ...