Dodgers' Next Big Signing? Japan's Home Run King Munetaka Murakami US-Bound
Japanese baseball's single-season home run record-holder Munetaka Murakami was recently seen on social media wearing a Los Angeles Dodgers cap.
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Los Angeles Dodger, Roki Sasaki's Baseball Cards
Now, his teammate from Japan’s 2023 World Baseball Classic championship team is joining him ... Both Ohtani and Sasaki played in the NPB before making their way to MLB. Topps Announces Nippon ...
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Seattle courted Ichiro for years ... and look how it paid off
Suzuki might prefer not to have a logo included out of respect ... who joined the Dodgers out of Nippon Professional Baseball and won the National League Rookie of the Year Award in 1995. Get the ...
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Seattle courted Ichiro for years ... and look how it paid off
Suzuki might prefer not to have a logo ... of Nippon Professional Baseball and won the National League Rookie of the Year Award in 1995. Get the latest from the Mariners Have the latest news, ticket ...
Should Roki Sasaki be considered a rookie? What to do about international players in first MLB season
There's not much question that while Major League Baseball remains the most prestigious and competitive league in the world, ...
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Should Roki Sasaki be considered a rookie? What to do about international players in first MLB season
Shota Imanaga of the Cubs last season, for example, was 30 years old and had eight years of experience in Nippon Professional Baseball ... MLB. He went 15-3 with a 2.91 ERA and made the All-Star team.
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Predicting Every MLB Team's 2025 Opening Day Lineup, Version 3.0
It's been almost a month since we published Version 2.0 of our Opening Day lineup predictions on Jan. 6, and things have become much clearer as the free-agent market has been whittled down to just ...
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The 10 MLB Teams That Have Improved the Most During 24-25 Offseason
There are a handful top-notch MLB free agents still available (Alex ... Given what we've witnessed thus far, though, some teams have made serious improvements while others seem to have missed ...
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Athletics signee Shotaro Morii is charting a rare path for Japanese baseball players
Twenty years ago, a teenaged Yu Darvish had the raw talent to sign directly with an MLB team but ultimately spent seven seasons in NPB before signing with the Texas Rangers. In 2012, Shohei Ohtani ...
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Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki’s MLB deal could spur chaos in Latin America. Here’s why.
NEW YORK (AP) — Roki Sasaki can sign with Major League Baseball teams during a nine-day window starting Wednesday, an unusual free agency with ripple effects for Latin American teenagers whose ...
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Rays' signing of Ha-Seong Kim is one more example of MLB’s broken system
The Rays have been in the bottom third of MLB payroll in each of the last 17 years and have reached the postseason nine times for a success rate of 53%. Every other team in the bottom third has a ...