The 23-year-old joined Kodai Senga and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in the train of top Japanese right-handed starting pitchers that have crossed over from the NPB to the MLB over the past few years.

The lineup features two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell, three-time NPB Pacific League MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto, three-time MLB MVP Shohei Ohtani — and possibly NPB ace Roki Sasaki.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have been on an unprecedented stretch that dates back to last offseason when they signed Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto ... from the NPB: “I was told in the last ...

The Dodgers cemented their status as the preferred MLB destination for NPB stars and transformed their rotation into a Mount Rushmore of Japanese pitching luminaries by winning the Rōki Sasaki ...

Among them are a potential new pitching schedule and routine, and slightly different baseball from the one used in NPB. Mookie Betts believes the presence of Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto ...

There's not much question that while Major League Baseball remains the most prestigious and competitive league in the world, ...

Roki Sasaki makes first comments as a Dodger after opting to team up with compatriots Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in LA.

Because he opted to leave NPB before his 25th birthday with less ... That meant no bidding war like the one that led to Yoshinobu Yamamoto signing a 12-year contract for $325 million with the ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers have quickly become the most hated franchise in Major League Baseball over the past few seasons.