The New York Yankees were called the "favorites" to land a Japanese star coming to Major League Baseball next year, over the Los Angeles Dodgers and others.

The Roki Sasaki sweepstakes have been settled, and the next Japanese-born superstar free agent planning to enter the Major Leagues has already emerged. One of t ...

The New York Yankees could definitely ... 851 OPS last season and a career mark of .945 at Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). The Yankees will be all over him. The problem is that they haven ...

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball have signed right-hander ... a 7-5 walkoff over the Yankees in Game 3. Such production would normally have given Avila a clear ticket ...

The New York Yankees are just four wins away ... The veteran lefty has pitched in the Nippon Professional Baseball league since 2016, posting a career 3.62 ERA and 2.45 K/BB ratio across 951.1 ...

Ever since signing elite starting pitcher Kodai Senga in December 2022, the New York Mets have struck out in attracting baseball's best Japanese players to thei ...

The New York Yankees have less than a year to ... 543 slash line in 836 Nippon Professional Baseball games. He hit 56 homers in 2022, breaking Japanese legend Sadaharu Oh's 1964 home run record.

Two days after the club announced an end to its longtime beard ban, the Yankees confirmed that they no longer will play Frank Sinatra’s iconic version of “New York, New York” after losses at ...

(CNN) — Aaron Judge with a beard? With the rollback of a decades-old New York Yankees team rule, that just might be possible. Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner announced Friday ...