Five of the 12 managers in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball have M.L.B. experience. All of them played for the Mets. By Brad Lefton Brad Lefton, who has covered Japanese baseball for nearly ...

Los Angeles Dodgers’ Tommy Edman, from top left, Shohei Ohtani (17) and manager Dave Roberts stand on the field before an MLB Japan Series exhibition baseball game against the Hanshin Tigers ...

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said he played baseball in Puerto Rico and Mexico and suggested the Japanese game and the Latin American game were linked. “I would say the similarity is the passion ...

“This is something, of course, I have to start thinking about what the baseball world is going to be,’’ Team Japan manager Hideki Kuriyama said. “So for the Japanese baseball ...

TOKYO (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki was having his typical day on a baseball field ... including the Japanese media — was able to be accommodated.” Current Dodgers manager Dave Roberts has been ...