The catcher was a seventh-round draft pick out of high school in 2025.

October 15, 2026, Yokohama. Shoki Oda of Yokohama High School, who was considered a certain first-round pick in this autumn's ...

A new report from a New York Yankees insider says the organization has worked for nearly a year to rebuild […] New York Yankees Predicted to Sign 39-HR NPB Superstar in Massive Move The New York ...

Baseball is now well behind football, which more than 40% of Americans said was their favorite sport to watch in 2023. Baseball is Japan’s pastime in a way it isn’t for America anymore. The key will ...

TOKYO -- Isao Harimoto, the baseball great who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb and still holds Japan's hits record, has died. He was 86. The Golden Players Club, an organization for elite baseball ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dan has written 41 books and more than 25,000 articles about baseball. For more than a century, baseball has built a bridge ...

Horace Wilson traveled from Gorham, Maine to Tokyo to teach English In 1872, and taught the game as well.

When Shohei Ohtani struck out Mike Trout for the final out in a 3-2 victory over the U.S. during the 2023 championship game, it gave Japan its third WBC title in five tournaments. To simply say that ...

Team Japan is the reigning champion of the World Baseball Classic. They won the 2023 tournament, beating the United States 3-2 in the final. The ending to the game is one of the most memorable moments ...

An historic game with India, a cricketing superpower, is the latest move to bring the sport to a whole new audience ...