Major League Baseball season is fully underway. Such an event might be the time when I’d point out that baseball is ...

If MLB can get Japan to follow all its teams, “We do believe there are payoffs in the B’s: billions,” commissioner Rob ...

After months of anticipation, Tomoyuki Sugano made his MLB debut on Sunday afternoon at Rogers Centre. It didn’t end the way ...

The crack of the bat is almost here with Opening Day for the 2025 Major League Baseball season set for March 27. But while ...

Japanese baseball has a rich history, but a series of structural factors stand in the way of it becoming a phenomenon in ...

MLB has long invested in Japan, where baseball is the top sport and has produced several MLB stars, building it into the ...

There was the crack of Shohei Ohtani’s bat, the roars from the Tokyo Dome crowd and the beeps from the credit card machines ...

The jammed sellout at the Tokyo Dome as the Dodgers and Cubs opened their regular season had a different vibe than the usual ...

L.A. Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani spoke in a rare interview about playing in front of a home crowd in Japan and what he's ...

The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.

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 ...

What happens to baseball in Japan, to the country’s pro league, if the stars all leave for the United States? About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and Yoshinobu ...