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Inside the Dodgers’ seven-year pursuit of Rōki Sasaki, their foothold in Japan and the battle for MLB's next potential pitching star.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba presented US President Donald Trump with a golden samurai helmet during their first ...
The 23-year-old Sasaki will join teammates from the 2023 WBC Samurai Japan team Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in a deep Dodgers’ rotation that is also expected to include Blake Snell ...
The trio all played together on Samurai Japan (the local nickname for the national team) in the 2023 World Baseball Classic, in which Ohtani closed out the country's third title. Their star power ...
Back home, he's a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now. His triumphs across the Pacific ... baseball-training system that some link to the martial arts and even samurai history.
“The Samurai Way of Baseball,” follows the career of Ichiro, who was Japan”s most famous player until he retired in 2019. It was also titled “The Meaning of Ichiro.” Ohtani came up in ...
The 23-year-old right-hander with a sizzling fastball and deadly splitter joins Samurai Japan teammates Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto with the World Series champion Dodgers. — Jeff Passan ...