Seibu Lions outfielder Seiya Watanabe has hit the ground running with a .407 average that ranks third among all NPB players.

The 23-year-old Sasaki had a 2.10 ERA in 64 NPB games over four seasons before choosing to sign with the defending World Series champion Dodgers, giving Los Angeles a trio of Japanese stars alongside ...

“The days of NPB games on nightly nationwide TV are long declining as Japanese people prefer to watch Japanese players like Ohtani in MLB telecasts rather than NPB,” Whiting said. “Younger ...

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 ...

Both teams have been in Japan for exhibition games against NPB teams the past few days, and it's also given MLB an opportunity to test some new replay angles. But let's hope we don't see this on ...

Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) canceled press credentials to the SMBC Japan Series for a TV network that aired World Series games at night in a competing time slot, a sanction criticized by a ...

Momentum Baseball Road Games in Nagoya Japan! | Tayler Scott NPB Posted: March 11, 2025 | Last updated: March 11, 2025 Tayler Scott heads to Nagoya, Japan for his first start of the season. We get ...

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 ...

This came to the forefront when Trevor Bauer made the prediction that he would strikeout 50% of batter he would face during his first NPB preseason game. After failing to achieve this goal ...

What the four exhibition games between the MLB and NPB clubs over the weekend showed, however, is that the well of talent in Japan runs deeper than the nation’s big leaguers. In a time of both ...