Right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano, 35, and the Baltimore Orioles agreed to a contract, the team announced Monday, uniting a Japanese pitcher with a team in need of rotation help, and the deal, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan, is for one year and $13 million.

Sugano, a star pitcher with the Yomiuri Giants, arrives in MLB after 12 seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball.

Tomoyuki Sugano took a quick trip to Baltimore on Monday. He didn’t step foot inside Camden Yards, much less toe the rubber at Oriole Park, but he liked what he saw, loved what he heard and, perhaps just as important, enjoyed what he ate. “Thought it was an incredible city.

In impact of talent from top leagues in Japan and Korea, the 2023-2024 offseason was one for the ages in Major League Baseball. Ten months before he dominated the Yankees in the World Series, Yoshinobu Yamamoto signed a 12-year, $325 million contract with the Dodgers. Shota Imanaga was a National

One of the more intriguing starting pitchers on the free-agent market isn't from the Major Leagues at all. Tomoyuki Sugano, the longtime ace of the Yomiuri Giants, Japan's most storied baseball franchise, is expected to come to the Major Leagues in 2025 after 12 seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball. The