A total of 16 players from eight teams, including Orix Buffaloes pitcher Taisuke Yamaoka, will be fined by their respective ...

The undisputed giants of the NPB (no pun intended…) Based in Bunkyo, Tokyo the Giants have won a record 22 Japan Series and have 39 Central League pennants to their name. This success and their public ...

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 ...

The historian for Japan's most prestigious baseball league believes that a player better than Shohei Ohtani will emerge one ...

Suzuki, now in his fourth season with Chicago, played nine seasons with the Central League's Hiroshima Toyo Carp from 2013 to 2021. During that time, he made five NPB All-Star teams, won Central ...

“We believe that this has maintained the appeal of the league as a whole even after star players have moved to MLB,” NPB said. It added that "the success of young players has attracted ...

Roki Sasaki NPB stats: How does righty's success in Japan ... But what he lacked in longevity, he made up for with one of the highest peaks the league has ever seen — one that compares favorably ...

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 ...