A former 6-year MLB veteran is nearing a historic deal in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball leauge.

Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) canceled press credentials to the SMBC Japan Series for a TV network that aired World Series games at night in a competing time slot, a sanction criticized by a ...

An additional 14 players across seven teams have admitted to wagering at illegal online casinos, the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization (NPB) announced on Feb. 27. The revelation comes a week ...

The Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees are reportedly among several high-profile MLB teams, including the Mets and ...

A new wave of NPB players have chosen to pursue their big-league dreams in recent years. Just this past offseason, Kodai Senga signed a five-year, $75MM deal with the Mets, Masataka Yoshida signed a ...

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 ...

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, ...

With pitcher Tatsuya Imai and infielder Kazuma Okamoto both reaching agreements with MLB teams over the past few days — and Munetaka Murakami signing with the Chicago White Sox last month — the book ...

Or is he a sign of things to come? Is he a harbinger of a new relationship between Japanese baseball and American baseball? Are we gonna see more and more guys coming over to college to try this path, ...