Ohtani came out of Japan’s regimented baseball system at Hanamaki Higashi High School in largely rural ... He’d get up in the middle of night and practice his swing," Whiting said.

Here are Fantasy on SI's top middle ... in Japan. He went 30-15 with a 2.02 ERA, 0.883 WHIP, and 524 strikeouts over 414.2 innings. In his time with Nippon Professional Baseball, he averaged ...

US judge accuses Trump of ignoring rule of law to curb birthright citizenship United Statescategory· February 7, 2025 The right wing of a Japan Airlines jet struck the tail of a Delta Air Lines ...

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As Rintaro Sasaki begins his college baseball career at Stanford with all of Japan watching, he knows there will be growing ...

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts added that Japanese rookie Roki Sasaki could start the second of the two-game set.

Most Japanese couldn't recognize Lars Nootbaar a few weeks ago, before the World Baseball Classic opened ... as a Samurai and refer to him by his middle name--Tatsuji--which is his grandfather ...

New Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Roki Sasaki was seen alongside his star Japanese teammates Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto at the club's spring training site for the first time on Tuesday. The ...

And Voth will be throwing in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball in 2025. Yakyu Cosmopolitan reported on "X" (formerly known as Twitter) that Voth signed with the Chiba Lotte Mariners.

Ogasawara, who has kept his ERA under 3.15 in two of his last three seasons in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball Organization, provides Washington with plenty of options. Shinnosuke Ogasawara ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said during a parliamentary session last week that the Japanese government was making an “earnest effort” to accept “ill or injured” people from ...