The Las Vegas Athletics may have found their potential franchise player in Japan after signing 18-year-old Shotaro Morii on Wednesday for a $1.5 million bonus deal. After a saddening end to the ...

It’s been six years since the last MLB game in Tokyo, when Ichiro Suzuki bid a tear-jerking goodbye to baseball. It feels ...

Back home, he's a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now ... Left-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the country's ...

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 ...

Roki Sasaki could join a long list of impressive Los Angeles Dodgers rookies, including Hideo Nomo, Don Newcombe and Fernando ...

Roki Sasaki could be the greatest Japanese pitcher ever. He hopes the Dodgers can turn him into just that, even if it means Shohei Ohtani outshines him.

Shohei Ohtani is doing things no other player has ... Ohtani follows two other milestone players--pitcher Hideo Nomo, who joined the Dodgers in 1995, and Ichiro Suzuki, who has more than 3,000 ...

Back home, he’s a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now ... Right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after, both boosting the country ...

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 ...

The reigning World Series champions have entrenched themselves in the Japanese market not just through their history of signing Japanese stars in Hideo Nomo ... commitment to Ohtani and Yamamoto ...

He has better control than Shohei Ohtani had at the same stage of his career. He is more athletic than Hideo Nomo was. He throws harder than Yu Darvish. Roki Sasaki is the most talented pitcher ...

Back home, he’s a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now. His triumphs across the ... player to span the Pacific and an instant star. Left-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, ...