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

The Nippon Ham Fighters on Sunday finished at the top of the 12-team Japanese baseball preseason standings for the first time since 2010. Five days before Nippon Professional Baseball's season begins, ...

A total of 16 players from eight teams, including Orix Buffaloes pitcher Taisuke Yamaoka, will be fined by their respective ...

Nippon Professional Baseball said Monday eight clubs will impose fines on 16 individuals found gambling online, which is ...

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

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

The four exhibition games between the MLB and NPB clubs showed that the well of talent in Japan runs deeper than the nation’s ...

NPB legend Tatsuro Hirooka criticized the newly-minted Dodgers pitcher Roki Sasaki. Hirooka claimed Sasaki was a "glass ace" ...

Nippon Professional Baseball's 12 clubs have decided to impose fines on players found gambling online, which is illegal in ...

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 ...