Power-hitting Japanese corner infielder Munetaka Murakami is entering Major League Baseball's posting system and will be available to teams to sign as a free agent from Saturday through Dec. 22.

Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball, and Ichiro Suzuki enters the Hall of Fame later ...

An additional 14 players across seven teams have admitted to wagering at illegal online casinos, the Nippon Professional ...

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 ...

One of the biggest international free agents on the market this offseason has signed … for a suspiciously small number. The White Sox landed Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami Sunday, for a deal that ...

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) ...

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 ...

Last week, the San Francisco Giants designated an outfielder for assignment after he began the season with a .406 OPS in 35 trips to the plate. The 28-year-old cleared waivers and ...

Throughout the offseason the CBS Sports MLB experts will bring you a weekly Batting Around roundtable, breaking down pretty much anything. The latest news, a historical question, thoughts about the ...

The Atlanta Braves used their first-round draft pick on a right-handed pitcher out of high school in 2018. At the time, he was committed to Mississippi State to play college baseb ...

Japanese baseball has adopted a rule to punish players for dangerous swings, as an umpire remains unconscious almost a month after being accidentally hit on the head by a bat. Umpire Takuto Kawakami ...