There's not much question that while Major League Baseball remains the most prestigious and competitive league in the world, ...

During the gestation period for the place that would become baseball’s sacred shrine, Time Magazine, the New York Times and ...

The baseball world was left delighted on Ichiro's induction into Cooperstown. But who opted to keep him off their ballot and ...

Yankees legend Hideki Matsui played seven seasons for the Yankees. It wasn’t until his final one, in 2009, with the addition ...

This is how it feels, anyway, and it isn't just because the Dodgers were revealed as the winners of the Rōki Sasaki sweepstakes on Friday. It is a big deal that one of the most talented pitchers on ...

As the first prominent Japanese position player to have success at the major league level, Suzuki paved the way for future MLB stars like Shohei Ohtani, Hideki Matsui, Seiya Suzuki and Masataka ...

But hitters? Ichiro was MLB's first Japanese-born position player. Hideki Matsui wouldn’t arrive in the Bronx for another two years. Shohei Ohtani was nearly two decades away from his fairly regular ...

The Dodgers' 2025 roster is poised to make history, as noted by Sarah Langs of MLB.com: "No team has ever ... for legends like Ichiro Suzuki, Hideki Matsui, Yu Darvish, Kenta Maeda, Kazuhisa ...

Despite pursuing the two biggest Japanese superstars to come over to MLB in the past two years ... Japanese power-hitting prospect since Hideki Matsui. And it sounds like the Yankees are planning ...

Right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and Hideki Matsui came just after ... s all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in Japan) — more even than Pete Rose’s 4,256.