However there are others, and in honor of the Toyko Series, we want to highlight one of them now: Closer Kazuhiro Sasaki. Sasaki came to the Mariners before the 2000 season after 10 year-career in ...

The waves of talent since, from Kazuhiro Sasaki to Kazuhisa Ishii to Hideki Matsui, Tahadito Iguchi and Hiroki Kuroda and others have only been jump-started over the last decade-plus.

Boyd grew up roughly 30 minutes outside Seattle and became a big Mariners fan when the organization featured two Japanese stars, the legendary Ichiro Suzuki and closer Kazuhiro Sasaki. Boyd later ...

The Major League Baseball season officially kicks off Tuesday morning as the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs meet in ...