Ichiro will go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball’s all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in Japan) — more even than Pete Rose's 4,256. He broke George Sisler’s single-season hits mark of 257 in 2004. The new mark is 262.

The Las Vegas Athletics may have found their potential franchise player in Japan after signing 18-year-old Shotaro Morii on Wednesday for a $1.5 million bonus deal. After a saddening end to the Athletics’ season and moving away from the historic Oakland Coliseum,

Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he’s much more than that in Japan. Back home, he’s a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now. His triumphs across the Pacific buoyed the nation as Japan’s economy sputtered through the so-called lost decades of the 1990s and into the 2000s.

Roki Sasaki could be the greatest Japanese pitcher ever. He hopes the Dodgers can turn him into just that, even if it means Shohei Ohtani outshines him.

Shohei Ohtani reportedly played a large role in starting pitcher Rōki Sasaki signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Ohtani was part of a contingent of Dodgers players present at the team's meeting ...

No two players are exactly alike. At the same time, the similarities between Roki Sasaki and Shohei Ohtani as pitchers at the same age are striking. Ohtani was 23 years old when he moved from ...

Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani is widely considered the best player in MLB. A two-way phenom when healthy, Ohtani is one of baseball's most feared hitters while being a Cy Young candidate ...

The Dodgers cemented their status as the preferred MLB destination for NPB stars and transformed their rotation into a Mount Rushmore of Japanese pitching luminaries by winning the Rōki Sasaki sweepstakes.

MLB. Shohei Ohtani's generous donation to LA firefighters: 'Our hearts go out to all those who continue to fight for us' MLB. Dodgers star pitcher did his best to recruit Roki Sasaki amid the ...

Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani is donating $500,000 to help firefighters and animals forced to flee the deadly wildfires around the region. Ohtani announced his intention on Instagram ...

Ichiro Suzuki is expected to be the first Japanese player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and possibly only the second player chosen unanimously after New York