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If you are a baseball fan, then there is one thing you might not have missed recently—the torpedo bats. The post Big ...
Nippon Professional Baseball on Friday notified its 12 clubs that players can use so-called torpedo bats in regular-season games. NPB's rules committee made the decision, effective the same day, after ...
Seibu Lions outfielder Seiya Watanabe has hit the ground running with a .407 average that ranks third among all NPB players.
Last week at the Annual Meat Conference , the National Pork Board connected with key stakeholders in retail, packing and ...
CropLife America hired Annemarie Pender as senior director of strategic communications. Landus president and CEO Matt ...
The historian for Japan's most prestigious baseball league believes that a player better than Shohei Ohtani will emerge one ...
A total of 16 players from eight teams, including Orix Buffaloes pitcher Taisuke Yamaoka, will be fined by their respective ...
Advertisement Manfred met with his NPB counterpart, Sadayuki Sakakibara, on Sunday, the second of two days of exhibition games between MLB teams and NPB teams in Japan. “I think people are ...
Former New York Yankees ace Masahiro Tanaka is closing in on a big milestone while playing for the Yomiuri Giants in Japan. According to JapanBall, Tanaka earn ...
The righty was made the No. 1 pick in the NPB draft before he even turned 18, and he somehow managed to even exceed that hype as a pro, dominating Japanese competition in a way that few pitchers ...
Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball, and Ichiro Suzuki enters the Hall of Fame later this year, reminders that some of the top talent in American baseball is ...
With the team going with a bullpen day for their first exhibition game in Japan, Merryweather opened for the Cubs against the NPB’s Hanshin Tigers. After a relatively subdued first half-inning ...