Sam Navarro-Imagn Images The MLB offseason changed dramatically Saturday with the announcement by the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Pro Baseball that ... with its team logo. After landing Yamamoto ...

Without MLB’s top stars, the Premier12 turns into a platform for rising talents and future hopefuls, drawing from Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball, South Korea’s KBO League, and the U.S ...

The posting agreement between MLB and Nippon Professional Baseball ties the NPB team’s compensation to the value of the free agent contract. An MLB team signing a posted player pays a fee to the ...

Baseball observers predict that Japanese pitching phenom Roki Sasaki may head to the Los Angeles Dodgers if he gets posted by ...

Roki Sasaki, the “Monster of the Reiwa Era,” will get his wish to pitch in the majors next season. The Chiba Lotte Marines of ...

"I really thank the team for allowing me (to play in MLB)," Sasaki said in a statement released through the Marines, a team in the Pacific League of the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization ...

The biggest Japanese baseball star since Shohei Ohtani is on his way to MLB at 23. A long-anticipated, cost-controlled ...

Japanese pitching phenom Roki Sasaki will officially be posted by his Nippon Professional Baseball team this winter, and although it's not known exactly when that will happen, all 30 teams in ...

clearing the path for the hard-throwing 23-year-old to transfer from Nippon Professional Baseball to MLB. Sasaki will be subject to international amateur free-agent restrictions, making him ...

(Wilfredo Lee / AP) The Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball announced over the weekend that they would “post” 23-year-old right-hander Roki Sasaki this fall, granting the next ...

Sasaki, the consensus top young pitcher in Japan, will be posted by the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball, the team announced. "Since I joined [the Marines], I have continued to ...