But times are changing. Two young stars — 19-year-old Rintaro Sasaki and 18-year-old Shotaro Morii — have moved directly to American baseball, bypassing NPB restrictions and unwritten societal ...

World Series Champions, the Los Angeles Dodgers, were honored by President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday before ...

Prospect Watch will run every other Friday. Half the time the focus will be on the 15 American League squads, and half the ...

Mets president of baseball operations David Stearns decided to bolster the team's scouting presence in a territory in which ...

Morii also signed in January, and after receiving the highest bonus ever given to an amateur out of Japan – just over $1.5 million – the exciting two-way player will make his debut later this season.

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed ...

The crack of the bat is almost here with Opening Day for the 2025 Major League Baseball season set for March 27. But while MLB has become known for its melting pot of backgrounds among players, this ...

This popularity has led to some Japanese ballplayers going straight to MLB. Shotaro Morii, 18, and Rintaro Sasaki, 19, "moved directly to American baseball, bypassing [Nippon] restrictions and ...

Morrii will be developed as a two-way player after signing for $1,510,500 million - the largest signing bonus for a Japanese amateur to not play for Nippon Professional Baseball, Martin Gallegos ...

Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Mariners, the impact of Japanese players is as prevalent as ever going into this week’s games in Tokyo.

Two young stars – 19-year-old Rintaro Sasaki and 18-year-old Shotaro Morii – have made an early move to the U.S. Sasaki is a slugging first baseman who plays at Stanford while Morii is a ...