The Los Angeles Dodgers cemented their status as Major League Baseball's new "Evil Empire" this offseason with a raft of ...

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2025. The final ...

Ichiro Suzuki, the dominant contact hitter whose 19 years in the major leagues, mostly with the Seattle Mariners, became the ...

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball’s Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he ...

That leads to a posting fee of $700K. Ogasawara, 27, pitched in part of nine seasons for the Chunichi Dragons of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball. He threw 951 1/3 innings, allowing 3.62 ...

Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball's Hall of Fame, falling one vote shy of unanimous when he ...

Nippon Ham Fighters manager Tsuyoshi Shinjo heads to a meeting of managers of the 12 Nippon Professional Baseball teams in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nippon Ham Fighters ...

Sasaki joins the World Series champions after spending the last four seasons with the Chiba Lotte Marines of the Nippon Professional Baseball league. The 6-foot-2-inch pitcher whose fastball can ...

Suzuki is regarded as the greatest contact hitter of all-time. Between his time in the Nippon Professional Baseball League and MLB, he has the most combined hits of all-time out of a batter.

Before that, he collected 1,278 hits in the Nippon Professional Baseball league in Japan, giving him more overall hits (4,367) than Pete Rose, MLB's all-time leader. Suzuki did not debut in MLB ...

He’s 25th on MLB’s all-time hit leaderboard with 3,089 and if you include Suzuki’s numbers in Nippon Professional Baseball — before he came to the big leagues with the Mariners in 2001 ...