As all the attention in baseball is focused on Juan Soto, Scott Boras, and his free agency, there is another that should draw ...

The Mets were early adopters of NPB starting pitchers. Masato Yoshii was a rotation regular for the 1998 and 1999 Mets. At ...

While every team can afford to sign Roki Sasaki, the Los Angeles Dodgers have two prominent Japanese stars to help recruit ...

Roki Sasaki is unlikely to sign a contract for another two months, but a unanimous opinion has formed among baseball ...

Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman, senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz and NPB expert Yuri Karasawa discuss ...

Last winter, we wrote about how Major League Baseball's offseason had been dominated by international free agents. At the ...

The Dodgers are viewed as the favorites to sign Sasaki. But based on his conversations with league sources, Jim Bowden ...

Former Major League Baseball pitcher Dallas Keuchel found himself in Japan for the last couple of months of the 2024 season ...

Unlike other high profile Japanese players, Sasaki will take less money by signing a minor league contract at age 23, betting ...

Saturday’s news that Roki Sasaki would be posted by the Chiba Lotte Marines sent shockwaves -- and excitement -- throughout ...

Star pitcher Roki Sasaki thanked the Lotte Marines and their fans Sunday in his first public appearance since the club ...

Roki Sasaki burst onto the scene in Japan as a 19-year-old in 2021, posting a 1.84 ERA over 16 starts. He bounded onto the ...