For MLB, which has seen significant viewership growth this season, it was proof that its investment in Japan and international baseball over the past three decades has been paying off. Baseball, which ...

It is hard to escape Shohei Ohtani in Japan, even while the country was glued to its own World Series equivalent.

Major League Baseball is having its most-viewed postseason in the U.S. since 2017 through the League Championship Series. The ...

With a Canadian team in the World Series for the first time in 32 years and two rosters filled with star international ...

Long before he became the global face of baseball, Shohei Ohtani was already making his mark. In November 2014, during the Japan All-Star Series, the young 20-year-old Japanese pit ...

"I know that I could go everywhere I wanted to in Japan and never see another scout," Ted Heid, the longtime Mariners Pacific ...

After injuries and bullpen stints derailed his career, Anthony Kay reinvented himself in Japan. Now, he's ready for another ...

Anthony Kay's MLB career looked finished after the former first-round pick left the league in 2023, but he's eyeing a return ...

While Japan's top baseball players have come to MLB and excelled for decades now, there has never been more of a spotlight on ...

The Dodgers, chasing back-to-back championships, sent their two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani to both hit and pitch in the season’s showdown against the Toronto Blue Jays. But before the bottom of the ...

At least two other NPB players will be posted by their clubs this year: 25-year-old first/third baseman Munetaka Murakami, ...

After narrowly missing the World Series in 2025, the Mariners enter this winter determined to take the next step. President ...