The Orix Buffaloes of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball announced this week that they’ve signed former Giants right-hander ...

TOKYO — At a time when premier Japanese baseball players are coming to the U.S. more frequently, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said Monday he does not expect Japan’s top league, ...

Every offseason, a handful of high-profile players from Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball and the Korea Baseball Organization in South Korea either reach true free agency or are made available to ...

Nippon Professional Baseball’s Seibu Lions announced overnight that they will post Kona Takahashi for MLB clubs this offseason. The news isn’t necessarily shocking, as it was reported back in August ...

Japanese right-handed pitchers Kona Takahashi and Tatsuya Imai were teammates on the Saitama Seibu Lions from 2018-25, and ...

TOKYO — Twenty minutes from the Tokyo Dome sits another of Japan’s most revered ballparks, the 99-year-old Meiji Jingu Stadium, one of the few fields still in use anywhere that can claim Babe Ruth as ...

The Japan Professional Baseball (NPB) and the prestigious club Yomiuri Giants representing the NPB were humiliated. The official major league website incorrectly marked the team of the Yomiuri star.

7:34pm: Jon Heyman of The New York Post writes that Okamoto and Imai are indeed both expected to be posted this offseason. The hope of being posted is notable, but that also does not guarantee either ...

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 ...

The Seibu Lions have agreed to post right-hander Kona Takahashi for Major League teams this winter, according to a report from Nikkai Sports. Takahashi turns 29 in February, and he has a 2.95 ERA, ...

Deadlines spark action, and with teams reluctant to give Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami the long-term, nine-figure commitment many originally projected, the Chicago White Sox pounced on the ...

With Major League Baseball's free agency period opening last week, teams are now in the clear to pursue upgrades to their roster as they see fit. Yet teams will have to wait a little longer before ...