Japan’s fair trade watchdog is investigating the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization over its confiscation of Fuji ...

Power-hitting Japanese corner infielder Munetaka Murakami is entering Major League Baseball's posting system and will be available to teams to sign as a free agent from Saturday through Dec. 22.

Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) was created in 1949 and is the highest level of baseball in Japan. NPB has produced some of the top players in MLB, like Ichiro Suzuki and Shohei Ohtani. Let's look ...

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Get ready, MLB fans and fantasy managers. There’s a trio of new high-profile NPB stars ready to take on the sport’s top league in 2026: Tatsuya Imai, a high-strikeout starting pitcher coming off a ...

I was very much under-equipped for the task, but in my seven years with the Marlins, I was the go-to analyst for East Asian baseball data. I had previously built decent major league equivalent (MLE) ...

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 ...

Last week, the San Francisco Giants designated an outfielder for assignment after he began the season with a .406 OPS in 35 trips to the plate. The 28-year-old cleared waivers and ...

Japanese baseball is reeling after the shocking arrest of Yomiuri Giants manager Shinnosuke Abe.