O’Hoppe’s solid season was hurt by a deep, six-week-long slump to end last season. The Angels hope to keep him fresher with ...

Just like Major League Baseball, Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball is set ... played for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2021, and the Pittsburgh Pirates the same year. He re-upped with the ...

The Los Angeles Angels are promoting pitching prospect Ryan Johnson to the major league roster. The 22-year-old was drafted just last season and has never throw ...

Last year’s World Series between the New York Yankees and the eventual champions, a Los Angeles Dodgers team led by Japanese phenom Shohei Ohtani, earned the best ratings in seven years. Just a year ...

TOKYO – Two springs ago, Andrew Friedman and his Los Angeles Dodgers lieutenants ... who left early from Japan’s top league, Nippon Professional Baseball, in hopes of becoming the latest ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers will begin their quest ... experienced incredible success playing in Nippon Professional Baseball, the country's top professional baseball league. Both the Dodgers and ...

About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. They came up through Nippon Professional Baseball and ...

Stanford University first baseman Rintaro Sasaki took questions from U.S. reporters without an interpreter after his team won ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers have announced their ... Yamamoto started in Nippon Professional Baseball just after his 19th birthday and was a dominant force for the Orix Buffaloes.

There are former or current All-Stars at nearly every position on the field for the Los Angeles Dodgers ... who in 2022 set the Nippon Professional Baseball record for strikeouts in a game ...

Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Mookie Betts ... might have expected the fans in the room to reply, “Play in Nippon Professional Baseball.” ...