All eyes will be on Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Paul Skenes as he enters his second season in the big leagues. MLB.com's David Adler named 12 'must-wat ...

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 ...

Just one season into his MLB career, Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes finds himself in the conversation for best pitcher in baseball. But could he shoot even ...

Thanks to the trail blazed by Ichiro and Hideo Nomo, among others, many young Japanese ballplayers are now going abroad. Roki Sasaki, a former pitcher with the Chiba Lotte Marines, signed with the ...

He has better control than Shohei Ohtani had at the same stage of his career. He is more athletic than Hideo Nomo was. He throws harder than Yu Darvish. Roki Sasaki is the most talented pitcher ...

While pitchers, including Hideo Nomo, had already played in the US, Suzuki made seismic waves as the first Japanese position player to sign with a major league club. Winner of the American League ...

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

Right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the country's confidence in a period of national malaise. Tsutsui termed Ichiro a “great cultural ...

He has better control than Shohei Ohtani had at the same stage of his career. He is more athletic than Hideo Nomo was. He throws harder than Yu Darvish. Roki Sasaki is the most talented pitcher ...