Brazil will join the United States, Mexico, Italy and Britain in Group B of the first round of next year's World Baseball ...

Major League Baseball season is fully underway. Such an event might be the time when I’d point out that baseball is ...

As the head of Fanatics’ East Asia operation, Kawana leads MLB’s merchandising in Japan, and the day had already set his company’s sales record in Asia. He was willing to bet no other sports ...

If you are a baseball fan, then there is one thing you might not have missed recently—the torpedo bats. The post Big ...

About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. They came up through Nippon Professional Baseball and ...

Yet, at a time when MLB is aggressively trying to leverage Ohtani’s rise for its own gain in Japan — and making no secret of those ambitions — the 12-team NPB is not moving with nearly the ...

Anyone who knew the history of sports in Japan might have expected the fans in the room to reply, “Play in Nippon Professional Baseball.” ...

Cuba had a record 26 players on Major League Baseball’s opening day rosters and Japan had 12 for its most since 2012.

What happens to baseball in Japan, to the country’s pro league, if the stars all leave for the United States? About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and ...

He’ll face Yamamoto on Tuesday (3 a.m. PT) in the first all-Japanese starting pitcher duel in MLB history. It’s quite a moment for Japan, Japanese baseball and the dozens of players who slowly ...

The Dodgers are Japan's team. Games are carried there. Merchandise is sold there in excess. MLB as a whole is raking in money from Japan as a top international market. While small-market owners ...