Being able to play with Otani and Yamamoto, both exceptional players, really looking forward to playing with them," Sasaki said in response to another similar question. "And not just them ...

Baseball America writes that he received mixed reviews from scouts despite a strong statistical performance. Lantigua has raw power projection on a 6’2″ frame but is expected to move to a ...

Twelve years later, Sasaki made his World Baseball Classic debut ... I was imagining a year ago that if Otani and Yamamoto could be signed, the Japanese would gather in the Padres and want ...

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed ...

The Giants are currently introducing future Hall of Famer Justin Verlander at a press conference, but there’s some other headline news coming out of that media session as well. Giants general ...

But the Yankees sure have addressed a lot of holes. 4. Mets (previously: 7) It’s amazing what the addition of one of the best hitters in baseball history -- one who is just about to enter his prime, a ...

Kazuhiko Otani, president and chief executive officer of hotel operator New Otani Co., died of esophagus cancer on Tuesday. He was 78. Born in Tokyo, he was a grandson of Yonetaro Otani, the founder ...