When asked about no longer being the top dog in terms of spending, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said he doesn’t ...

The newest Japanese baseball star is blazing his own path, and he's set for a much-anticipated college debut this ...

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts announced on Wednesday that star Japanese pitchers Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki will take ...

Sasaki made the surprising jump from playing high school ball in Japan to attending an American college, forgoing Japan's ...

FILE - Roki Sasaki, of Japan, pitches during their Pool B game against the Czech Republic at the World Baseball Classic at the Tokyo Dome in Japan, March 11, 2023. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko ...

Inside the Dodgers’ seven-year pursuit of Rōki Sasaki, their foothold in Japan and the battle for MLB's next potential pitching star.

(AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) FILE- Japan's Roki Sasaki delivers a pitch during the first inning of a World Baseball Classic game against Mexico, Monday, March 20, 2023, in Miami. (AP Photo ...

There's not much question that while Major League Baseball remains the most prestigious and competitive league in the world, several other international professional leagues have closed the gap. In ...

In between the two, Kazuhiro Sasaki, at age 32 with 11 years of NPB ... The other professional leagues are so much better than ever before with baseball becoming much more mainstream and ...

Last week, former outfielder Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame ... In 2000, Kazuhiro Sasaki won the AL Rookie of the Year Award at age 32 with ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- The Dodgers bolstered their starting rotation on Wednesday with the addition of right-hander Roki Sasaki ... of the Nippon Professional Baseball league.

LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani broke the news to the Dodgers that prized Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki was joining the team. Ohtani sent a text to Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew ...