Japan Professional Baseball

Japanese star Roki Sasaki now a Dodger

Meet Roki Sasaki, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ next Japanese superstar

What do you buy for the team that has everything? That is the question that the Los Angeles Dodgers have been wrestling with this winter. The answer, it would appear, is Roki Sasaki.

Reuters · 14h

'Journey just beginning': Japan's Sasaki signs with Dodgers

Roki Sasaki said he looks forward to starting his Major League Baseball career in Los Angeles after signing a deal with the Dodgers on Wednesday that will see him team up with fellow Japanese players Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

The Boston Globe · 12h

Shohei Ohtani informed the Dodgers they had landed prized Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki

Ohtani sent a text to Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman even before Sasaki’s agent informed the club.

Ichiro Suzuki enters Baseball Hall of Fame

CBC.ca · 23h

Ichiro Suzuki 1st Japanese player elected into baseball's Hall of Fame, joined by Sabathia, Wagner

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball's Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected Tuesday along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.

The Associated Press on MSN · 2d

Ichiro Suzuki, about to be a Hall of Famer, means more than baseball to Japan

Expected to be the first Japanese player elected to the Cooperstown on Tuesday, Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride and his fame across the Pacific when he joined MLB was therapeutic for his

NJ.com on MSN · 1d

Baseball Hall of Fame 2025: Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia headline class with Yankees, Mets ties

Ichiro Suzuki and CC Sabathia were elected to the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers Association of America on Tuesday. Billy Wagner also received enough votes to round out the 2025 Hall of Fame class. Results were unveiled in an election show on MLB Network.

MLB3d

Japan's iconic cheer squads? You can thank college football

Two thousand fans piled into their seats at Stanford University's baseball stadium in Palo Alto, filling the grandstands and ...

Athletics signee Shotaro Morii is charting a rare path for Japanese baseball players

Japanese baseball stars have almost exclusively come to MLB after playing in NPB. Morii is breaking precedent by signing with ...

MLB Rumors4d

Nippon Professional Baseball

Prior to the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball officially posting right-hander Roki Sasaki for major league clubs last month, Major League Baseball conducted an investigation ...

12h

Sasaki vows to 'give best' to fire-torn LA at Dodgers unveiling

Japanese baseball prodigy Roki Sasaki issued a pledge of solidarity on Wednesday as he was formally unveiled by the Los ...

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