Growing the game of baseball means making it accessible to everyone. With that sentiment in mind, Major League Baseball found an opportunity to give back in the city that has played the part of ...

High school baseball players in Japan sporting shaved heads are no longer the norm in a clean break from past tradition, according to a new study. In fact, nearly three-quarters of high school ...

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 ...

Rintaro Sasaki, the left-handed power hitter who set the Japanese high school home run record (14) while playing at Hanamaki Higashi High School (Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan), has made a big first ...

Sasaki will be eligible for the MLB draft in 2026. “I don’t know how I will influence Japanese high school baseball players, but I’m just going on my path, my way,” he said speaking in ...

Sasaki will be eligible for the MLB draft in 2026. “I don’t know how I will influence Japanese high school baseball players, but I’m just going on my path, my way,” he said speaking in ...

The outflow from Japan A slugging first baseman, Rintaro Sasaki skipped the NPB draft last year and signed to play college baseball at Stanford. He attended Hanamaki Higashi High School ...