The Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professonal Baseball have agreed to a deal ... but this tenure in Los Angeles ended after three months and 107 2/3 innings when he was placed on administrative ...

What do you buy for the team that has everything? That is the question that the Los Angeles Dodgers have been wrestling with this winter. The answer, it would appear, is Roki Sasaki.

Roki Sasaki is joining the Los Angeles Dodgers! After the Chiba Lotte Mariners of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball announced they planned to post their 23-year-old star pitcher in November ...

ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016. The Monster of the Reiwa era has arrived. On Friday night, Japanese right-hander Roki Sasaki chose the Los Angeles Dodgers as his ...

Prior to the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional ... Major League Baseball conducted an investigation before authorizing Sasaki’s posting. Jack Harris of The Los Angeles Times reported ...

The splitter is on the rise in Major League Baseball, and the Dodgers are cornering the market. Splitters were thrown more often in 2024 than in any other season of the pitch tracking era, which goes back to 2008.

The Seattle Mariners are a little over two weeks away from pitchers and catchers reporting to Spring Training on Feb. 12. The Mariners entered the offseason wit

L.A.'s run of star additions has angered opposing fan bases and sounded alarms across the sport. But is the team or the system to blame?

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani broke the news to the Los Angeles Dodgers that prized Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki was joining the team. Ohtani sent a text to Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman even before Sasaki's agent informed the club.

The 2024 season was one for the books, but as we look ahead to what's next with just weeks to go before Spring Training games get underway, it's clear that the best is yet to come. That, of course, be

When Roki Sasaki sat down for a sushi dinner with Dodgers officials and players last week, days before agreeing to sign with the club in one of

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he was elected along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner.