That leads to a posting fee of $700K. Ogasawara, 27, pitched in part of nine seasons for the Chunichi Dragons of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball. He threw 951 1/3 innings, allowing 3.62 ...

Nippon Ham Fighters manager Tsuyoshi Shinjo heads to a meeting of managers of the 12 Nippon Professional Baseball teams in Tokyo on Jan. 20, 2025. (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nippon Ham Fighters ...

Ogasawara, 27, was a NPB All-Star in 2023 and pitched in nine seasons for the Chunichi Dragons of the the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization. The Nationals have signed Shinnosuke Ogasawara ...

Ogasawara, 27, joins the Nationals after he pitched to a 3.12 ERA in 24 games in 2024 for the Chunichi Dragons of the the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization. He walked just 22 batters and ...

The Nationals will pay a $700K posting fee to his former team, the Chunichi Dragons of Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball. It’s a $4.2MM investment altogether. Fellow lefty Joe La Sorsa was ...

Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame as part of the class of 2025. The final results were unveiled Tuesday on MLB Network, with at least 75 percent ...

Sasaki joins the World Series champions after spending the last four seasons with the Chiba Lotte Marines of the Nippon Professional Baseball league. The 6-foot-2-inch pitcher whose fastball can ...

During his career as a baseball player, including the time when he played for the Orix Buffaloes, a Japanese professional baseball team, Ichiro recorded a total of 4,367 hits, surpassing the MLB ...

Suzuki is regarded as the greatest contact hitter of all-time. Between his time in the Nippon Professional Baseball League and MLB, he has the most combined hits of all-time out of a batter.

Before that, he collected 1,278 hits in the Nippon Professional Baseball league in Japan, giving him more overall hits (4,367) than Pete Rose, MLB's all-time leader. Suzuki did not debut in MLB ...

Japanese baseball star Suzuki Ichirō has made history ... joining one ballot shy of a unanimous vote. Created by Nippon.com based on data from MLB.com. Ichirō made his MLB debut in 2001 with ...

He’s 25th on MLB’s all-time hit leaderboard with 3,089 and if you include Suzuki’s numbers in Nippon Professional Baseball — before he came to the big leagues with the Mariners in 2001 ...