It’s been six years since the last MLB game in Tokyo, when Ichiro Suzuki bid a tear-jerking goodbye to baseball. It feels ...

There's not much question that while Major League Baseball remains the most prestigious and competitive league in the world, ...

A once-in-a-generation player who earned the admiration of baseball fans in North America -- the birthplace of the sport -- ...

Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts acknowledges challenges in competing with the Los Angeles Dodgers for top Japanese talent.

The Washington Nationals signed Japanese pitcher Shinnosuke Ogasawara despite his losing record. General Manager Mike Rizzo believes the lefty is “big league ready.” ...

Ichiro Suzuki was one of the faces of baseball during the 2000s after making the jump from the Japanese League to join the ...

Ichiro Suzuki is a first-ballot Hall of Famer ... Nippon Professional Baseball before joining MLB and the Mariners in 2001. While Japanese pitcher Hideo Nomo was a star for the Dodgers in the 1990s, ...

Players are elected to the Hall of Fame provided they are named on at least 75% of ballots cast by eligible voting members of the BBWAA. With 394 ballots submitted in the 2025 election, candidates ...

Few Americans knew what to expect of Ichiro Suzuki when he first came to ... But while the likes of Hideo Nomo (and, much earlier, Masanori Murakami) had paved the way for Japanese pitchers ...

TOKYO (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball ... the first Japanese position player to span the Pacific and an instant star. Left-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came ...