The road to World Baseball Classic 2026 begins now. Sixteen of the 20 teams are set and all that’s left is for the final four teams to battle for their places. The first stop begins at the Taipei ...
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TOKYO — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he’s much more than that in Japan. Back home, he’s a wellspring of national ...
On April 2, 2001, Bret Boone jogged to second base for a chilly Opening Day in Seattle. The roof at Safeco Field was open, the upstart Oakland Athletics were in town, and ESPN2 had the national ...
An all-time international baseball icon will get his day in the Cooperstown sun this July, alongside pitchers CC Sabathia and ...
Japanese baseball stars have almost exclusively come to MLB after playing in NPB. Morii is breaking precedent by signing with the A's.
Sugano, who faced Jones in the 2017 World Baseball Classic in addition to NPB play, is just the third Japanese player to ... So, keep the ball down, use your defense and you’ll have a successful ...
Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he ...
Such analysis might become moot in the future, what with young Japanese stars exploring earlier leaps to Major League Baseball, such as Rōki Sasaki’s agreement with the Los Angeles Dodgers ...