Japanese Baseball Team

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 · 22h

'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 · 20h

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.

Here's who's being inducted into 2025 Baseball Hall of Fame

The Associated Press on MSN · 2d

Ichiro is about to get his Hall of Fame moment. For Japan, he’s more than just a baseball star

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he is much more than that at home in Japan. Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride — like Shohei Ohtani now — and his fame across the Pacific was therapeutic as the national economy sputtered through the so-called lost decades.

ESPN on MSN · 1d

Baseball Hall of Fame 2025: Why Ichiro, Sabathia, Wagner got in

Welcome to the Hall of Fame, Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner. It's a remarkable achievement to survive the gauntlet of baseball writers to get elected to Cooperstown: After all, the Baseball Hall of Fame remains the toughest to gain entry to,

MLB · 1d

MLB Now discusses the 2025 Hall of Fame class, voting

The MLB Now crew talks about the newly elected 2025 Hall of Fame class, Ichiro Suzuki being one vote shy of unanimity and voting trends

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 ...

15h

Dodgers introduce Roki Sasaki, who says Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto didn't influence his decision to join team

Sasaki said he prioritized joining a team that would embrace a Japanese player, but explained that there were other reasons ...

Inside The Games4d

Ichiro inducted into Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame

The NPB and MLB superstar Ichiro Suzuki was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame this week, during a ceremony held in Tokyo. At the event, the other new members receiving this ...

ABC News4d

Ichiro about to get Hall of Fame moment. For Japan, he's more than a baseball star

Ichiro started playing baseball at age 7 on a Little League team near Nagoya in central Japan. Sure, baseball is baseball, but the culture around the game — known as “yakyu” (field ball ...

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