The Transpacific Exchange of the Game” will explore the longstanding exchange of teams and players in the more than 150 years ...

Forced changes to baseball mechanics have derailed the careers of many ballplayers, but Hisashi Iwakuma improved spectacularly after the adjustments.

It’s been six years since the last MLB game in Tokyo, when Ichiro Suzuki bid a tear-jerking goodbye to baseball. It feels ...

Roki Sasaki could join a long list of impressive Los Angeles Dodgers rookies, including Hideo Nomo, Don Newcombe and Fernando ...

There's not much question that while Major League Baseball remains the most prestigious and competitive league in the world, ...

A once-in-a-generation player who earned the admiration of baseball fans in North America -- the birthplace of the sport -- has now received the highe ...

Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts acknowledges challenges in competing with the Los Angeles Dodgers for top Japanese talent.

What do you buy for the team that has everything? That is the question that the Los Angeles Dodgers have been wrestling with this winter. The answer, it would appear, is Roki Sasaki.

Sasaki will be the 13th player born in Japan to play for the Dodgers, along with Dave Roberts (player and manager), Hideo Nomo, Masao Kida, Kazuhisa Ishii, Norihiro Nakamura, Takashi Saito ...

In 1995, the Dodgers made history by signing right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo, a five-time All-Star in Japan's Pacific League. Nomo became the first player from a Japanese professional league to ...

While Japanese pitcher Hideo Nomo was a star for the Dodgers in the 1990s, Suzuki was the first Japanese position player to enjoy that level of success in the majors. In his debut season, Susuki ...