The Munetaka Murakami sweepstakes have begun. Are the Dodgers the favorite in the clubhouse? See the odds for who lands the ...

"I know that I could go everywhere I wanted to in Japan and never see another scout," Ted Heid, the longtime Mariners Pacific ...

Former Rockies pitcher Peter Lambert is back in affiliated ball after a year in Japan. Find out more at MLB Trade Rumors.

When the Giants returned to Japan, the Japanese Baseball League was formed, which was reorganized into Nippon Professional Baseball in 1950. The Giants have gone on to dominate the NPB, winning 22 ...

The SoftBank Hawks were crowned champions of Nippon Professional Baseball on Thursday after Isami Nomura's 11th-inning go-ahead home run gave them a Japan Series-clinching 3-2 win over the Hanshin ...

Manager Kazuto Tsuruoka of the Nankai Hawks in the Nippon Professional Baseball league initially was unsuccessful in ...

A new documentary on the shared love of baseball in the U.S. and Japan — created with the help of a Sonoma couple — is ...

On the morning of the second and final game of Major League Baseball's Tokyo Series between the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers on March 19, a dusting of snow fell on Japan's capital city — an ...

Translation from Japanese to English: Play ball! Baseball has long been the national pastime in the United States, but it’s Japan that has dominated the sport on a global level at the World Baseball ...

When Shohei Ohtani stepped onto the field at the Tokyo Dome in March 2025, he wasn’t just playing a game – he was carrying forward more than 100 years of baseball ties between the U.S. and Japan. It ...