Dodgers' Next Big Signing? Japan's Home Run King Munetaka Murakami US-Bound
Japanese baseball's single-season home run record-holder Munetaka Murakami was recently seen on social media wearing a Los Angeles Dodgers cap.
At Stanford, Japanese prospect Rintaro Sasaki finds home away from home as a college student
As Rintaro Sasaki begins his college baseball career at Stanford with all of Japan watching, he knows there will be growing ...
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The Baseball Hall of Fame was made for Ichiro Suzuki. Will perfect candidate be unanimous?
372 average with a career-best 17 home runs. Suzuki never took ... what with young Japanese stars exploring earlier leaps to Major League Baseball, such as Rōki Sasaki’s agreement with the ...
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Yankees 'Would Love' to Sign Japanese Superstar Slugger in 2026
Despite pursuing the two biggest Japanese ... only combined for 64 home runs the last two seasons. He was a Central League MVP Award winner in 2021-22. At the 2023 World Baseball Classic, he ...
Japanese stars Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shota Imanaga expected to start in MLB Opening Day series
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts added that Japanese rookie Roki Sasaki could start the second of the two-game set.
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Ichiro is about to get his Hall of Fame moment. For Japan, he's more than just a baseball star
Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki, of Japan, hits a solo home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, in Anaheim, Calif., on May 31, 2009, (AP Photo/Mark J.
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Yankees already have eyes on signing slugger for 1B next offseason | ‘Would love to have him’
After the New York Yankees failed to lure two Japanese ... for 64 home runs the last two seasons. He was a Central League MVP Award winner in 2021-22. At the 2023 World Baseball Classic, he ...
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Top prospect Shotaro Morii bypasses Japanese baseball to sign with Athletics
Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese ... He hit 45 home runs in three seasons ...
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2-way player Shotaro Morii, 18, bypasses Japan baseball to sign with A's
Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese ... He hit 45 home runs in three seasons ...
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Shotaro Morii, 18-year-old two-way player, bypasses Japanese baseball to sign with Athletics
Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese ... He hit 45 home runs in three seasons ...