Last winter, we wrote about how Major League Baseball's offseason had been dominated by international free agents. At the ...

Hotly tipped Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki was on Saturday given the green light to follow in the footsteps of Shohei Ohtani ...

His performances have become a regular feature of morning TV news programmes in Japan, brightening up the start of the day for baseball fans and beyond. The best-of-seven series against the ...

The hype surrounding baseball sensation Shohei Ohtani, arguably one of Japan's most promising young ... The headlines coming out of the US following a game on Sunday night show that even the ...

Tokyo (AFP) – Hotly tipped Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki was on Saturday given the green light to follow in ... Major League Baseball. Sasaki, widely regarded as one of the best players in ...

Ohtani has stoked national pride, even among the Japanese who don’t care about baseball. Youth players in Japan adore him and newscasts often lead with him, even though the country is voting on ...