Kiley has ranked the prospects for ESPN since 2020, with Keith Law doing it the years before that. For this exercise, we're ...

During the second half of the 2024 season, Baltimore’s roster was hampered by injuries to key players. Lineup pieces such as ...

LOS ANGELES -- Roki Sasaki, the prized Japanese pitching prospect who has ... first three major league seasons and unable to become a traditional free agent until attaining six years of service ...

the Dodgers refrained from using Yamamoto on a traditional five-day pitching cycle. Pitchers in the Japanese league generally pitch once a week, and the Dodgers didn’t want to suddenly increase ...

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Things to know about the sports betting case against the ex-interpreter for baseball's Shohei Ohtani - The former interpreter ...

@athletics/Instagram The shortstop/right-handed pitcher had 45 home runs during ... Morii is forgoing the more traditional path for Japanese players who end up playing for an NPB team before ...

On Friday, January 17, highly-touted Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki confirmed his ... he is considered an international free agent and will sign a traditional rookie contract with the Dodgers ...

With it, the clock began to tick on when Japanese ace Roki Sasaki, the best pitcher in the world not ... hundreds of millions more if he were a traditional free agent. Such is the cost of him ...

But while the likes of Hideo Nomo (and, much earlier, Masanori Murakami) had paved the way for Japanese pitchers to play ... more room on the table to accrue traditional counting stats.