If you miss old-school starting pitcher duels, Nippon Professional Baseball is the place to find them. NPB averaged seven complete games per club last season, compared to just one per team in Major ...

I was very much under-equipped for the task, but in my seven years with the Marlins, I was the go-to analyst for East Asian baseball data. I had previously built decent major league equivalent (MLE) ...

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Right-hander Naoyuki Uwasawa’s foray into North American ball will come to a close after one season. The SoftBank Hawks of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball announced this week that they’ve signed ...

Moriki made his NPB debut with the Hanshin Tigers in 2022 and has not appeared with the top team in the Pacific League since.

There’s a “strong belief among MLB teams” that the Orix Buffaloes of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball will post ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto following the 2023 season, reports Joel Sherman of the New ...

One of the best parts about the World Baseball Classic is seeing the great players from around the world who we don't see every day in MLB. Those could be international stars from leagues like Japan's ...

If you've paid close attention to Major League Baseball's offseason, you may have noticed a new trend. First, headlines were dominated by Shohei Ohtani. More recently, they've been populated by ...

TOKYO — At a time when premier Japanese baseball players are coming to the U.S. more frequently, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said Monday he does not expect Japan’s top league, ...

Rintaro Sasaki intends to continue his baseball career in the United States. In an unprecedented move, the top high school prospect in Japan did not submit his name for the Nippon Professional ...

Japanese high school baseball phenom Rintaro Sasaki signed a National Letter of Intent to play at Stanford, the team announced via social media on Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know: The top-ranked ...

On Tuesday, MLB.com's Thomas Harding reported that the NL West club and Japanese right-handed pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano have ...