Rintaro Sasaki, 19, begins his collegiate career as Stanford opens its 2025 season against Cal State Fullerton. Sasaki comes ...

As Rintaro Sasaki begins his college baseball career at Stanford with all of Japan watching, he knows there will be growing ...

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

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 ...

Fagg was drafted in by D’station to join Tomonobu Fujii aboard the No. 777 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo from the second round ...

(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 ...

On Wednesday the Los Angeles Dodgers held a press conference to introduce their latest high-profile international signing, 23-year-old Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki. Baseball America celebrated the ...