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MIami – For Kim Ng, the first three weeks as general manager of the Miami Marlins has meant less rest and more coffee. She has been getting to know colleagues at work, contacting agents and other teams, and learning as much as she can about the 150 or so players […]

The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters said Thursday that center fielder Haruki Nishikawa has been made available for major league clubs through the posting system. Once MLB has informed its 30 teams of Nishikawa’s availability, they will have 30 days to reach an agreement with him. The Fighters will then receive […]

New York – Major League Baseball is creating a minor league for top eligible prospects leading to the summer draft. The wood-bat MLB Draft League is launching with five teams and could add a sixth, MLB said Monday. Teams will play a 68-game regular season that includes an All-Star break […]

As they watched the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks ground the Yomiuri Giants into dust during the Japan Series, fans of the other five Pacific League teams might have been home asking themselves the same question: Could we have done this? The answer is probably not. The Hawks are in a class […]

Chiba – Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher Hirokazu Sawamura said Monday he will exercise his international free agency rights, allowing him to seek a deal with a team in Major League Baseball. “The majors are also among my options if I consider all 42 teams in Japan and the United States,” […]

Fukuoka – It’s possible there were multiple winners Wednesday night at PayPay Dome when Yoshiyuki Kamei’s popup landed in Ukyo Shuto’s glove to end the 2020 Japan Series. The obvious winners were the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, evidenced by the players rushing onto the field as manager Kimiyasu Kudo exchanged elbow […]

Fukuoka – The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks may be in the middle of an epoch-making run in Japanese baseball that could — if other teams can emulate the way they operate on and off the field— cause a shift in the game. That, however, remains to be seen. What we know […]

Fukuoka – The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks may be in the middle of an epoch-making run in Japanese baseball that could — if other teams can emulate the way they operate on and off the field— cause a shift in the game. That, however, remains to be seen. What we know […]

The Yomiuri Giants will let ace right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano move to the major leagues via the posting system should the player request it, an executive from the Central League team said Thursday. Sugano, a two-time winner of the prestigious Eiji Sawamura Award as Japanese professional baseball’s most impressive starting pitcher, […]

Fukuoka – If the sight of Yuki Yanagita holding up his bat while taking a few steps toward first base didn’t tell the story, the sound that filled the stadium surely did. The crack of Yanagita’s bat meeting the ball gave way to the immediate roar of the crowd to […]