San Diego Padres right-hander Yu Darvish said Thursday he welcomes the Los Angeles Dodgers strengthening their roster in th ...

In December, Sasaki sat down for sushi with former Samurai Japan teammates Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The dinner came shortly after his initial meeting with the Dodgers and marked the ...

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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba presented US President Donald Trump with a golden samurai helmet during their first ...

Roki Sasaki was expected by many to sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers. They were right. The flame-throwing right-hander from Japan agreed to a deal with the Dodgers on Friday, according to a post on ...

And on the frontlines of it all, was Shohei Ohtani. Ohtani captained Samurai Japan in the 2023 World Baseball Classic, a team which also featured the young Roki Sasaki. However, there was always a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...