The posting agreement between MLB and Nippon Professional Baseball ties the NPB team’s compensation to the value of the free agent contract. An MLB team signing a posted player pays a fee to the ...

Last winter, we wrote about how Major League Baseball's offseason had been dominated by international free agents. At the ...

Nippon Professional Baseball received an official warning on ... players to employ agents in their contract negotiations with teams but required each agent to be a lawyer who could represent ...

Both Nippon Professional Baseball and Fuji Television Network Inc have come under criticism for decisions they made during the recently concluded Japan Series. At issue was Fuji's decision to ...

Major League Baseball's winter meetings are just over three weeks away ... Soto and agent Scott Boras are taking meetings ...

However, since he is short of nine full years of NPB service time, Ogasawara will need to be posted in order to make the move to North American baseball. To recap the posting system, any team that ...

Shohei Ohtani awas born and grew up in Oshu, Japan. He attended Hanamaki Higashi High School in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, and played baseball for his school team. He was also into swimming and ...

Boston Red Sox target ace Roki Sasaki has declined an offer from the Chiba Lotta Marines, his team in the NPB, Japan’s highest level of professional baseball, per Francys Romero. He can either ...

Indeed, the 22-year-old had a night at the plate that others can only dream about, making Nippon Professional Baseball history ... the Swallows and joined the team in 2018. In 2021, he hit 39 ...

Throughout her young career as a standout pitcher, Ayuri Shimano has sought to take giant steps for female baseball players in Japan. Now, she’ll become a Giant herself. Shimano, 17, has been ...

The New York Yankees are among the teams that have expressed interest in signing Japanese ace Roki Sasaki this offseason, ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Both Nippon Professional Baseball and Fuji Television Network Inc. have come under criticism for decisions they made during the recently concluded Japan Series. At issue ...