The Associated Press on MSN15d
What’s the future of baseball in Japan as the best players leave for MLB?
Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball, and Ichiro Suzuki enters the Hall of Fame later this year, reminders that some of the top talent in American baseball is ...
Opinion
Stanford's Rintaro Sasaki blazing new trail to MLB for Japanese phenoms: 'Doing it my way'
Rintaro Sasaki opted out of the NPB draft to come play college baseball in America. Will his decision work out?
Dayton Daily News15d
What's the future of baseball in Japan as the best players leave for MLB?
12-year deal last offseason and was asked a few weeks ago at spring training in Arizona if the loss of great players could hurt Japanese baseball. “That’s a good question, a difficult question ...
The Associated Press on MSN16d
From Nomo to Ichiro to Ohtani: Japan's baseball rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series
Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese players ... That’s the best hitter I’ve ever seen.” Lovullo was ahead of the ...
The New York Times15d
After meeting with NPB, Rob Manfred not expecting change to Japanese player acquisitions
TOKYO — At a time when premier Japanese baseball players are coming ... their domestic product’s damn good. I mean, damn good. And that’s kind of the perfect world for all of us.” ...