Ohtani reportedly played a huge role in the Dodgers' recruitment of Sasaki, the 23-year-old pitching phenom, who posted a ...

The Japanese phenom is making the jump to MLB after spending the last four seasons with the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional ... the presence of Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers made another significant addition to their starting rotation with the signing of Roki Sasaki to a ...

Since the 23-year-old phenom Roki Sasaki was posted by his Nippon Professional Baseball team ... invited former MVPs like Freddie Freeman, Shohei Ohtani, and Mookie Betts, but a sushi chef ...

Santa Ana, California, Feb. 6 (Jiji Press)--A federal district court in California on Thursday sentenced Ippei Mizuhara, a former interpreter for the Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani ...

Twenty teams — including the Tigers — submitted information to Wasserman agent Joel Wolfe after the Chiba Lotte Marines of Japan's Nippon Professional ... with Shohei Ohtani a few years ...

Suzuki spent nine seasons in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball before ... Read more: 'A Shohei economy': How Shohei Ohtani's first year transformed the Dodgers financially In his debut season ...

Could the next Shohei Ohtani be on the Athletics ... The bonus is the largest ever for a Japanese amateur outside of the Nippon Professional Baseball league, per MLB Pipeline.

Top Japanese players traditionally have signed first with Nippon Professional Baseball ... He doesn’t compare himself to Ohtani. “Shohei is really a baseball player far away from me right ...