The Washington Nationals are beefing up their rotation! The MLB team has inked a two-year, $3.5 million deal with left-handed ...

Ogasawara has been pitching in Nippon Professional Baseball since 2016. Last season ... He joins right-handers Jake Irvin, Michael Soroka and Trevor Williams, and left-handers MacKenzie Gore, DJ Herz ...

That leads to a posting fee of $700K. Ogasawara, 27, pitched in part of nine seasons for the Chunichi Dragons of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball. He threw 951 1/3 innings, allowing 3.62 ...

Bauer, who last played in MLB with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2021, pitched for the Bay Stars in 2023, when he recorded an 11 ...

Ogasawara, 27, was a NPB All-Star in 2023 and pitched in nine seasons for the Chunichi Dragons of the the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization. The Nationals have signed Shinnosuke Ogasawara ...

Japanese pitchers who make the jump to the major leagues have often said the baseballs there are slipperier than those in Nippon Professional Baseball. But no one had done a scientific study on ...

Former Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer will rejoin the DeNA BayStars for the 2025 Nippon Professional Baseball season, the club announced Monday. The 34-year-old right-hander, who played for the ...

Since the departure of Roki Sasaki, right-hander Hiroto Takahashi is considered Nippon Professional Baseball’s best pitcher. Like the trio of Japanese-born Dodgers players, Takahashi ...

Munetaka Murakami could be next. From Shohei Ohtani to Yoshinobu Yamamoto to Sasaki, there's been a wave of young Japanese superstars coming to MLB from Nippon Professional Baseball over the last few ...