The Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela — the four members of the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation ... Caribbean Series 2025. Japan, a special guest ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- All 12 Nippon Professional Baseball teams began their spring training workouts Saturday, with many of them in indoor facilities due to bad weather. Seven teams started ...

In his time with Nippon Professional Baseball, he averaged 6.2 innings per appearance while missing some time with various injuries. Typically, a player coming to the United States leads to a ...

The Chicago Cubs will head to Tokyo next month to take on the Los Angeles Dodgers to open the regular season in the Japan ...

Top Japanese players traditionally have signed first with Nippon Professional Baseball clubs and established their professional credentials before moving to MLB as free agents or through the MLB ...

Because Sasaki is under 25 and has not played six seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball, he is classified as an international amateur by MLB. That means he’s limited to a minor league contract ...

Eighty years after Japan’s surrender in World War II ... Since Ishiba became prime minister, he has shown a demonstrably more pro-China stance ...

It’s been six years since the last MLB game in Tokyo, when Ichiro Suzuki bid a tear-jerking goodbye to baseball. It feels ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani is set to be sentenced for bank and tax fraud ...

Sasaki, who turned pro with Nippon Professional Baseball at the age of 19, certainly seems to have the skills to live up to the hype. In high school, he broke Ohtani’s fastball velocity record ...

The Hall of Fame voter who declined to select Ichiro Suzuki remains a mystery. All 321 voters who allowed their ballots to be made public Tuesday by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America ...

The four mainstays and permanent members of the Caribbean Confederation of Professional Baseball -- Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Mexico and the Dominican Republic -- are represented. In addition, Japan is ...