He'll join another former Seattle minor league player, Jason Vosler, with the Dragons. The deal is worth $1.25 million in 2025 with $200,000 in incentives. Chunichi also paid the Mariners a ...

Former Seattle Mariners minor league slugger Jason Vosler is heading to Japan for the 2025 ... The Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball have agreed to a deal with infielder Jason ...

Kawasaki originally signed with Seattle on a minor league contract after an 11-year stint in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.

Baltimore acquired Luis F. Castillo, a right-handed pitcher who spent the previous two seasons in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league, from the Seattle Mariners for cash Wednesday night ...

A baseball legend has bowed out. Ichiro Suzuki, the famed Japanese outfielder who played most of his MLB career for the Seattle Mariners, announced his retirement Thursday night, shortly after ...

The Mariners had strong ties across the Pacific: They had a longtime owner, Hiroshi Yamauchi, based in Japan and they of course had Ichiro, baseball’s iconic Japanese star, helping to open a ...

He was 27 when he left the Orix Blue Wave for the Seattle Mariners. Suzuki had been a major star in Japan with career .353 batting averages over nine seasons with 1,278 hits in 951 games.

He’s perhaps the best contact hitter ever, with 1,278 hits in Nippon Professional Baseball and 3,089 in MLB, including a season-record 262 in 2004. His combined total of 4,367 exceeds Pete Rose ...

The Seattle Mariners had a mass exodus of minor league players over the course of the offseason. ... agreed to terms to pitch for Nippon Professional Baseball's Chunichi Dragons.

Kawasaki originally signed with Seattle on a minor league contract after an 11-year stint in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball with the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.

Japan starting pitcher Roki Sasaki pitches against Mexico during the second inning of a semifinal game at the World Baseball Classic, March 20, 2023, in Miami. (Matias J. Ocner / TNS) Facebook ...

The Seattle Mariners had a mass exodus of minor league players over the course of the offseason. More than 30 players departed the organization either via free agency or retirement.