It was an impressive, albeit mixed rookie season for Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The Japanese phenom looked impressive during his first campaign in the Majors, however, a strained right rotator cuff limited him to only 90 innings of work.

The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series in 2024, and they appear set to get even better in 2025. With Shohei Ohtani returning back to the starting rotation

MLB teams have coveted Roki Sasaki since he broke Shohei Ohtani's Japanese high school record by reaching 101 mph with his fastball as a 17-year-old in 2019, part of a 194-pitch, 12-inning, 21-strikeout complete game in the national summer Koshien tournament.

Roki Sasaki, MLB’s rising star, reveals how Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto played a pivotal role in his decision to join the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Ichiro Suzuki was one of the faces of baseball during the 2000s after making the jump from the Japanese League to join the Seattle Mariners, paving the

Japanese star Roki Sasaki signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers, he announced on Instagram. The 23-year-old right-hander with a sizzling fastball and deadly splitter joins Samurai Japan teammates Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto with the World Series champion Dodgers.

The splitter is on the rise in Major League Baseball, and the Dodgers are cornering the market. Splitters were thrown more often in 2024 than in any other season of the pitch tracking era, which goes back to 2008.

The saga over the signing of Japanese phenomenon Roki Sasaki ended last Friday and the team chosen was the Los Angeles Dodgers, who once again came out on top and demonstrated thei

According to Jon Morosi of MLB Network, Yamamoto was instrumental ... in the midst of the courtship of Sasaki came between Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki. … What I was told is the ability ...

The list of Los Angeles Dodgers players attending 2025 DodgerFest at Dodger Stadium is headlined by Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman. It is the first DodgerFest for Yoshinobu Yamamoto,

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