Aoyagi, 31, spent nine seasons in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league, where he posted a 3.08 ERA over 898⅓ innings ...

The race to snag the 23-year-old pitcher had become one of the dominant subplots of the baseball off-season Japanese star Roki Sasaki is joining the Los Angeles Dodgers following a frenzied Major ...

Roki Sasaki's move to MLB from the Lotte Marines at the age of 23 marks a landmark change in the dynamic that exists between Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball as well as future ...

The Chiba Lotte Marines, Sasaki’s Nippon Professional ... been considered a professional and could have signed a deal for any amount. That’s the route Yoshinobu Yamamoto took, eventually ...

Continuing a historic offseason, the Los Angeles Dodgers officially announced a 12-year deal with Japanese right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto ... pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball history.

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare ...

On Dec. 21, 2023, Yoshinobu Yamamoto agreed to ... fee of $50.6 million to the Orix Buffaloes, Yamamoto’s former Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) club. That essentially increased the Dodgers ...

Japanese pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who could be moving to ... teams under the posting system agreed to by MLB and Nippon Professional Baseball. New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman ...

Roki Sasaki is set to make his decision to join an MLB team in the next 10 days and most of the signs point towards the young Japanese flamethrower signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers.