From Oh to Ohtani and beyond: How Japanese baseball reached new heights
No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...
Every Yankees Japanese player through the years, from Hideki Irabu to Masahiro Tanaka
Shohei Ohtani may be the biggest Japanese star in MLB currently, but the Yankees have employed a solid run of Japanese stars ...
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Giants Mailbagg, Part 2: Will a more conventional approach lead to success?
Welcome to Part 2 of the spring training edition of the San Francisco Giants Mailbagg. You can find Part 1 here. And if you missed my announcement from yesterday, here it is: My editors were kind ...
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The best Japanese players of all time
But then came a healthy 2021 season, which became one of the greatest individual seasons ... A's and Rays before retiring in 2012. Ichiro became the first position player to make the transition from ...
Influence of Seattle Mariners Legend Ichiro Suzuki Still Felt Two Decades Later
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs will kick off the 2025 season on the eastern hemisphere Tuesday morning for the ...
From Nomo to Ichiro to Ohtani: Japan’s baseball rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series
Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese ...
From Oh to Ohtani: How Japan developed a generation of baseball superstars (again)
The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.
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Mariners star had awesome haircut tribute to Ichiro
Seattle Mariners center fielder Julio Rodriguez had a great tribute to Ichiro Suzuki at the start of training camp on Wednesday. Rodriguez was sporting a new haircut when he took the field at ...