The Las Vegas Athletics may have found their potential franchise player in Japan after signing 18-year-old Shotaro Morii on ...

Who, hard as it may be to believe, is being left behind by Shohei Ohtani ... I’ve had the privilege of capturing early images of Hideo Nomo as an amateur, as well as Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki ...

And as he enthused about the sensation that is Shohei Ohtani, baseball fan Hotaru Shiromizo ... that of players like Ichiro Suzuki and Hideo Nomo, who came before him. One of them could hit ...

Suzuki spent nine seasons with Orix in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball before joining MLB and the Mariners in 2001. While Japanese pitcher Hideo Nomo was a star for the Dodgers in the 1990s, ...

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By picking the Dodgers over the Padres, Sasaki has deprived baseball of regular showdowns with Ohtani, who like Sasaki is from Japan's Iwate prefecture. With the Dodgers, he always will be an ...

But they hope to get results even better than received from their previous Japanese imports, including Hideo Nomo, Kenta Maeda, Hiroki Kuroda, and Kaz Ishii. Two-way star Shohei Ohtani will be a ...

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he’s much more than that in Japan. Back home, he’s a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now. His triumphs across the Pacific buoyed the ...

Ichiro debuted in Major League Baseball in 2001 with the Seattle Mariners, the first Japanese position player to span the Pacific and an instant star. Left-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and ...

The Dodgers cemented their status as the preferred MLB destination for NPB stars and transformed their rotation into a Mount Rushmore of Japanese pitching luminaries by winning the Rōki Sasaki ...