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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

That amount doesn't come close to representing his worth on the open market, because Sasaki was subject to the MLB's international bonus pool restrictions. Had he waited until he turned 25 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 ...

Sasaki, 23, was considered to be the best pitcher in the world who was not already under the employment of a Major League Baseball franchise. That'll change now that he's slated to be part of the ...

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 ...