Kazuhiro Sasaki is One of Many Japanese Players to Have Big Impact on Seattle Mariners
The Major League Baseball season officially kicks off Tuesday morning as the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs meet in ...
From Nomo to Ichiro to Ohtani: Japan's rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series
Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for Seattle, the impact of Japanese players in Major ...
Cubs Pitcher Thrilled to Be in Japan for Tokyo Series
All anyone in the MLB world can discuss is the 2025 Tokyo Series, including a Cubs pitcher who grew up in Washington state ...
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From Oh to Ohtani and beyond: How Japanese baseball reached new heights
The waves of talent since, from Kazuhiro Sasaki to Kazuhisa Ishii to Hideki Matsui, Tahadito Iguchi and Hiroki Kuroda and others have only been jump-started over the last decade-plus.
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Japan’s rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series
At first, it was mostly pitchers who came from Japan to play in the U.S. Shigetoshi Hasegawa was a quality reliever for the Angels and Mariners starting in the late 1990s, and Kazuhiro Sasaki was ...
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Chicago Cubs notes from Tokyo: Matthew Boyd’s roots to Japanese baseball — and a healthy Julian Merryweather
Boyd grew up roughly 30 minutes outside Seattle and became a big Mariners fan when the organization featured two Japanese stars, the legendary Ichiro Suzuki and closer Kazuhiro Sasaki. Boyd later ...
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From Nomo to Ichiro to Ohtani: Japan's baseball rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series
At first, it was mostly pitchers who came from Japan to play in the U.S. Shigetoshi Hasegawa was a quality reliever for the Angels and Mariners starting in the late 1990s, and Kazuhiro Sasaki was ...