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Pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, a high school phenom who went on to international fame and glory, including a World Series championship, has decided to call it quits from professional baseball.

The Cincinnati Reds probably would have liked Daisuke Matsuzaka’s first career appearance against them to come at another time — such as next season. Matsuzaka scattered four hits in 72/3 ...

alongside former Boston Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka (2nd from left). TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Even six years into retirement, Ichiro Suzuki retains his burning passion for baseball, training hard ...

joining Daisuke Matsuzaka and Andrew Benintendi. The 20-year-old has had a relatively quick rise up the Red Sox’ system and prospect rankings since the team selected him in the second round of ...

Aces rarely rest on the road to Koshien. Daisuke Matsuzaka, nicknamed the Monster of the Heisei era, once threw 398 pitches in two days. “It’s the dream of every high school kid to pitch in ...

Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Matsui. And every year, after a team loses, the players, many weeping uncontrollably, scrape the dirt near the dugout to take home as a memento. On a recent afternoon ...

That would be 23-year-old Japanese starting pitcher Roki Sasaki, who opted to forgo a more lucrative payday to pursue his MLB ambitions earlier. According to an announcement on his Instagram page, ...

Red Sox (11 players; 27 fWAR) Key players: Daisuke Matsuzaka, Koji Uehara, Junichi Tazawa Matsuzaka, already a six-time NPB All-Star at age 26 (he'd make his seventh All-Star team in 2018, long after ...

Daisuke Matsuzaka, RHP, 2007-14 Matsuzaka dominated NPB from 1999-2006 with the Seibu Lions before the Red Sox signed him in December 2006, a signing that included a then-record $51.1 million posting ...