A new wave of NPB players have chosen to pursue their big-league dreams in recent years. Just this past offseason, Kodai Senga signed a five-year, $75MM deal with the Mets, Masataka Yoshida signed a ...

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 ...

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Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) canceled press credentials to the SMBC Japan Series for a TV network that aired World ...

7:34pm: Jon Heyman of The New York Post writes that Okamoto and Imai are indeed both expected to be posted this offseason. The hope of being posted is notable, but that also does not guarantee either ...

With pitcher Tatsuya Imai and infielder Kazuma Okamoto both reaching agreements with MLB teams over the past few days — and Munetaka Murakami signing with the Chicago White Sox last month — the book ...

Japanese baseball is reeling after the shocking arrest of Yomiuri Giants manager Shinnosuke Abe.

Japanese pitchers who make the jump to the major leagues have often said the baseballs there are slipperier than those in Nippon Professional Baseball. But no one had done a scientific study on the ...

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 ...

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 ...