The 23-year-old joined Kodai Senga and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in the train of top Japanese right-handed starting pitchers that have crossed over from the NPB to the MLB over the past few years.

Another Japanese-born superstar hints at a future with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Hiroto Takahashi was spotted practicing in ...

The lineup features two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell, three-time NPB Pacific League MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto, three-time MLB MVP Shohei Ohtani — and possibly NPB ace Roki Sasaki.

than Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who was 25 when he signed with the Dodgers for a record $325 million last offseason. While Yamamoto was the more decorated and durable pitcher in NPB, Sasaki is younger ...

Among them are a potential new pitching schedule and routine, and slightly different baseball from the one used in NPB. Mookie Betts believes the presence of Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto ...

The Dodgers cemented their status as the preferred MLB destination for NPB stars and transformed their rotation into a Mount Rushmore of Japanese pitching luminaries by winning the Rōki Sasaki ...

NEW YORK--Yoshinobu Yamamoto will become a free agent Tuesday ... and under the agreement between MLB and NPB the negotiating period starts at 8 a.m. Tuesday and extends for up to 45 days.

If he can continue to produce similar numbers in NPB, then he's young enough that ... and most recently Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Former A's outfielder and a teammate of Díaz, Cody Thomas, was a ...

Roki Sasaki burst onto the scene in Japan as a 19-year-old in 2021, posting a 1.84 ERA over 16 starts. He bounded onto the ...