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Yoshida's solid spring debut adds intrigue to Red Sox roster battle
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- As the Red Sox sort out their positional alignment as it pertains to Rafael Devers, Alex Bregman, Kristian Campbell and Vaughn Grissom, a name not being mentioned as much is Masataka Yoshida.
Now entering his third Major League season after a strong run in Japan, Yoshida
Ohtani homers in first spring at-bat, a good sign for shoulder
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- All it took was one swing for Shohei Ohtani to quell any early concerns about his surgically repaired left shoulder.
Making his highly anticipated Cactus League debut on Friday against his former team in an eventual 6-5 Dodgers win, Ohtani hit a long home run to left
Ichiro Suzuki comes up one vote shy of being a unanimous selection to the Baseball Hall of Fame; CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner also earn place in Cooperstown - The Boston Globe
Suzuki received 393 of a possible 394 votes submitted by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America to become the first Japanese player elected to the Hall of Fame.
18-year-old two-way Japanese slugger signs record-setting deal with A's
The Athletics made waves to kick off the 2025 international signing period, inking 18-year-old two-way player Shotaro Morii to a $1,510,500 million deal, the largest bonus ever for a Japanese amateur outside of Nippon Professional Baseball, according to Yakyu Cosmopolitan.
A left-handed hitter with 45 high school home runs to
Sources: O's, Sugano agree to 1-year, $13M deal
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 eager to pitch in the U.S., work with Adley ... and eat soft-shell crabs
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.
Who will sign Sasaki? 2 division rivals appear to have big edge
Ever since Roki Sasaki's agent, Joel Wolfe, met with the media at the Winter Meetings, there’s been speculation about which team might be the best fit to land the prized right-hander, who was recently posted by his Japanese team, the Chiba Lotte Marines.
As one executive put it when asked