The Tokyo Yakult Swallows are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Shinjuku, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball ...

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball have signed right-hander Pedro Avila, according to multiple reports out of Japan. Avila elected free agency in January rather than accept an ...

Munetaka Murakami is officially posted by the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. He has a 45 day window to negotiate with any MLB team. If an agreement doesn't happen, he goes back Japan and plays in Nippon ...

TOKYO - Nippon Professional Baseball's oldest active player, 46-year-old Yakult Swallows pitcher Masanori Ishikawa, said Wednesday he will retire at the end of this season. The left-hander has spent ...

Roki Sasaki is doing his part to help the Dodgers in their quest for a second straight World Series title, but the next ...

TOKYO, JAPAN— On Nov. 7, Japanese baseball superstar Munetaka Murakami was officially posted by his Nippon Professional Baseball team, the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, making him eligible to join a Major ...

White Sox general manager Chris Getz said at the MLB Winter Meetings in December that he could see the light at the end of the tunnel of the organization's rebuild. And on Sunday, he made a deal that ...

A True Franchise SystemCurrently, 12 teams belong to Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).Most of them are owned by ...