Japanese baseball superstar Kazuma Okamoto has agreed a free-agent contract with the Toronto Blue Jays to finally end speculation over his MLB landing spot. Okamoto, 29, has a league-best 247 home ...

When Shohei Ohtani stepped onto the field at the Tokyo Dome in March 2025, he wasn’t just playing a game – he was carrying forward more than 100 years of baseball ties between the U.S. and Japan. It ...

Kazuma Okamoto is a corner infielder with 248 home runs in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Darren Yamashita / Imagn Images Japanese slugger and corner infielder Kazuma Okamoto will be ...

TOKYO (AP) — It is hard to escape Shohei Ohtani in Japan, even while the country was glued to its own World Series equivalent. To Japanese fans, Ohtani is just about perfect: He hits home runs, ...

The White Sox are signing third baseman Munetaka Murakami from Japan on a two-year, $34 million deal, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported on Sunday. Murakami will play first base in Chicago. Murakami drew ...