The Hall of Fame voter who declined to select Ichiro Suzuki remains a mystery. All 321 voters who allowed their ballots to be made public Tuesday by the Baseball Writers' Association of America ...

All 12 Nippon Professional Baseball teams began their spring training workouts Saturday, with many of them in indoor facilities due to bad weather. Seven teams started their training in Okinawa ...

During the gestation period for the place that would become baseball’s sacred shrine, Time Magazine, the New York Times and ...

In introducing Sasaki, Andrew Friedman, president of baseball ... New York Yankees from 1998 to 2000. Sasaki was made ...

Japanese broadcasting powerhouse Nippon TV has elevated longtime exec Hiroyuki Fukuda to the top spot, naming him representative director, president and COO. The former rugby player, who joined ...

The New York Yankees are already preparing to ... 543 over seven seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball. He hit a walk-off two-run double in the semifinal against Mexico and a home run against ...

The bonus is the largest ever for a Japanese amateur outside of the Nippon Professional ... calling him a “baseball player far away from me right now.” Bill Kostroun/New York Post Morii ...

Top Japanese players traditionally have signed first with Nippon Professional Baseball clubs and established their professional credentials before moving to MLB as free agents or through the MLB-NPB ...

“There has been an understanding,” New York Yankees general manager Brian ... In the past year, the Japanese Professional Baseball Players Association has prepared a legal fight to push ...

Typically Japanese players are drafted or sign with teams in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball after high school, then later come to MLB as free agents or through the posting system (like Sasaki).