Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) was created in 1949 and is the highest level of baseball in Japan. NPB has produced some of the top players in MLB, like Ichiro Suzuki and Shohei Ohtani. Let's look ...

Carson McCusker hit three home runs in one game earlier this month for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.

With the Major League Baseball draft just days away, Japanese slugger Rintaro Sasaki faces a career decision that has ...

Get ready, MLB fans and fantasy managers. There’s a trio of new high-profile NPB stars ready to take on the sport’s top league in 2026: Tatsuya Imai, a high-strikeout starting pitcher coming off a ...

When Hideo Nomo joined the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995 as the first MLB player from Japan in three decades, his Rookie of the ...

Japanese Prospect Sasaki Chooses Marlins Over NPB First Pick Sasaki thanks former teams, embraces MLB challenge after ...

That title belongs to first baseman Rintaro Sasaki, who played two seasons of college baseball at Stanford.  The Japanese ...

The Marlins drafted Rintaro Sasaki in the eighth round of the 2026 MLB Draft with the No. 235 overall pick on Sunday. He comes from Stanford University, where he hit 16 home runs this season with a ...

TOKYO — Twenty minutes from the Tokyo Dome sits another of Japan’s most revered ballparks, the 99-year-old Meiji Jingu Stadium, one of the few fields still in use anywhere that can claim Babe Ruth as ...

Power-hitting Japanese corner infielder Munetaka Murakami is entering Major League Baseball's posting system and will be available to teams to sign as a free agent from Saturday through Dec. 22.

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, ...