The southpaw celebrates his 27th birthday on Tuesday, and he has appeared with the Dragons in each of the last nine Nippon Professional Baseball seasons. However, since he is short of nine full ...

By Brad Lefton Five of the 12 managers in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball have M.L.B. experience. All of them played for the Mets. By Brad Lefton A polarizing redevelopment plan would level ...

We meet American Bianca Smith, a former pro baseball coach who now trains children and teens in Hokkaido Prefecture, and Francis Geyrozaga Lapinig, also from the US who works as an autobody ...

Go back about a decade and check the Nippon Professional Baseball stats. There was a 19-year-old kid who hit pretty well in 234 plate appearances while also pitching to a 2.61 ERA in 155 1/3 innings.

The Fair Trade Commission on Thursday warned an internal body of the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization that rules preventing players from freely choosing their agents for contract ...

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During a Thursday Los Angeles Dodgers game versus the Miami Marlins, baseball phenom Shohei Ohtani hit a record that no other player has reached. This latest record also only adds to Ohtani’s ...

Two-way players are more common in Japan and Ohtani spent five years honing his skills playing professional baseball in his homeland, before switching to the US. "I remember speaking to a scout ...

New York — Dick Moss, the lawyer who won the arbitration case that created free agency for baseball players and revolutionized pay for professional athletes, has died. He was 93. Moss died ...

It is, indeed, a hulking mass of concrete, and there is nothing like it left in professional sports ... And that has fostered one of baseball’s grittiest and most irreverent fan bases.

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