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Right-hander Naoyuki Uwasawa’s foray into North American ball will come to a close after one season. The SoftBank Hawks of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball announced this week that they’ve signed ...

I was very much under-equipped for the task, but in my seven years with the Marlins, I was the go-to analyst for East Asian baseball data. I had previously built decent major league equivalent (MLE) ...

TOKYO — At a time when premier Japanese baseball players are coming to the U.S. more frequently, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said Monday he does not expect Japan’s top league, ...

Japanese high school baseball phenom Rintaro Sasaki signed a National Letter of Intent to play at Stanford, the team announced via social media on Tuesday. Here’s what you need to know: The top-ranked ...

Rintaro Sasaki intends to continue his baseball career in the United States. In an unprecedented move, the top high school prospect in Japan did not submit his name for the Nippon Professional ...

If you've paid close attention to Major League Baseball's offseason, you may have noticed a new trend. First, headlines were dominated by Shohei Ohtani. More recently, they've been populated by ...

It's no secret that Japanese pitchers have dominated Major League Baseball's offseason. First, it was two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani. Then came Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who has since joined Ohtani with ...

A Japanese high school baseball phenom is choosing to play college ball in the United States rather than playing in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Rintaro Sasaki, who holds the Japanese high ...

Japanese high schooler Rintaro Sasaki is planning to attend college and play baseball in the United States rather than take part in the Nippon Professional Baseball draft, according to reports out of ...