A Nippon Professional Baseball umpire experienced a sudden and violent incident that landed him in intensive care. A foul made Takuto Kawakami lose consciousness during a routine game. And the ...

Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) was created in 1949 and is the highest level of baseball in Japan. NPB has produced some of the top players in MLB, like Ichiro Suzuki and Shohei Ohtani. Let's look ...

Samurai Japan’s starting lineup for the 2026 World Baseball Classic quarterfinal against Venezuela was stacked with stars, ...

Get ready, MLB fans and fantasy managers. There’s a trio of new high-profile NPB stars ready to take on the sport’s top league in 2026: Tatsuya Imai, a high-strikeout starting pitcher coming off a ...

Right-hander Takahiro Norimoto of the Rakuten Eagles in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball is planning to exercise his international free agent rights and gauge interest from both MLB and NPB teams ...

If you miss old-school starting pitcher duels, Nippon Professional Baseball is the place to find them. NPB averaged seven complete games per club last season, compared to just one per team in Major ...

Deadlines spark action, and with teams reluctant to give Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami the long-term, nine-figure commitment many originally projected, the Chicago White Sox pounced on the ...

With Major League Baseball's free agency period opening last week, teams are now in the clear to pursue upgrades to their roster as they see fit. Yet teams will have to wait a little longer before ...

I was very much under-equipped for the task, but in my seven years with the Marlins, I was the go-to analyst for East Asian baseball data. I had previously built decent major league equivalent (MLE) ...

Right-hander Tatsuya Imai found an MLB home earlier today, signing a three-year deal with the Astros. The same can’t be said for Imai’s former Seibu Lions teammate, Kona Takahashi, whose posting ...