In sports, few decisions are as emotionally charged as choosing which nation to represent on the world stage, a dilemma former New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez faced at the 2006 World Baseball Cla ...

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Cy Young Awards were announced in November, and Chris Sale and Tarik Skubal are great. But the next Cy Young Award winner ...

A case could be made that Sasaki was the most valuable pitcher on the winter free agent market because of the unique ...

Roki Sasaki is Major League Baseball's hottest new star but he had to struggle through adversity to get there, losing his ...

Japanese ace Roki Sasaki made his free-agent decision on Friday, agreeing to join the World Series champion Los Angeles ...

Deep down, all MLB fans knew that this could happen. Roki Sasaki, a 23-year-old phenom pitcher out of Japan, was making the jump to the majors. The thing was, m ...

January 16th, 2025 by Jake Cain The baseball world is mourning the loss of Bob Uecker, a man whose wit and humor transcended ...

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For some teams in Major League Baseball, the chase for Roki Sasaki could not be measured in mere months. It lasted for years.

While MLB teams compete for Roki Sasaki, another rising Japanese player reportedly makes a quiet yet historic move to the ...

Sasaki was again in the spotlight a year later as part of Japan's title-winning 2023 World Baseball Classic team. On the 12-year anniversary of the disaster that upended his life, he was the ...