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 join a long list of impressive Los Angeles Dodgers rookies, including Hideo Nomo, Don Newcombe and Fernando ...

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

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

The Washington Nationals signed Japanese pitcher Shinnosuke Ogasawara despite his losing record. General Manager Mike Rizzo believes the lefty is “big league ready.” ...

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

The series dumped Thorsen so abruptly that it still stings, and installments like The Rookie Season 7 Episode 3 spend a surprising amount of time with these new characters. They should get under ...

Ichiro Suzuki is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. That has long been the assumption among baseball fans regarding the Japanese outfielder who played the majority of his 19-year MLB career with the ...

Whiting used the pitcher Hideo Nomo’s transition as a ... that meant predicting Ichiro’s rookie season. Conventional wisdom said that Japanese baseball was comparable to Triple A, so Tippett ...

Ichirō made his MLB debut in 2001 with the Seattle Mariners and immediately had an impact, taking both the rookie of ... only two Japanese players, pitcher Nomo Hideo and slugger Matsui Hideki ...

Players are elected to the Hall of Fame provided they are named on at least 75% of ballots cast by eligible voting members of the BBWAA. With 394 ballots submitted in the 2025 election, candidates ...

While pitchers, including Hideo Nomo, had already played in the US, Suzuki made seismic waves as the first Japanese position ... Valuable Player Award and AL Rookie of the Year Award, Suzuki ...