Sixth grader Mihiro Sasaki, who immediately enjoyed playing catch, said: “My dream is to become a female professional baseball player. I hope Otani will do his best to become the home run king ...

Reigning National League MVP Shohei Ohtani helped lead the LA Dodgers to the 2024 World Series title. His role is expected to ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers’ star player Shohei Otani is about to take on another, equally important role — that of a father! The 30-year-old baseball sensation and his wife, Mamiko Tanaka ...

Paul Hoynes and Joe Noga break down the MLB arbitration process and how Cleveland has historically handled contracts.

President of baseball operations Andrew Friedman ... the English-speaking players and even the Japanese speaking players. "He was one of the first that Otani really opened up to going back to ...

Ohtani won his third Most Valuable Player award and first in the National League, led his new team to its eighth World Series championship and created Major League Baseball’s 50/50 club by ...

The names “Kuriyama,” “Otani” and “Yamamoto” bring to mind three prominent figures from Japan’s national team that won the 2023 World Baseball Classic: manager Hideki Kuriyama ...

Japanese baseball stars have almost exclusively come to MLB after playing in NPB. Morii is breaking precedent by signing with ...

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare ...

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 ...