If you are a baseball fan, then there is one thing you might not have missed recently—the torpedo bats. The post Big ...

Seibu Lions outfielder Seiya Watanabe has hit the ground running with a .407 average that ranks third among all NPB players.

Last week at the Annual Meat Conference , the National Pork Board connected with key stakeholders in retail, packing and ...

Nippon Professional Baseball on Friday notified its 12 clubs that players can use so-called torpedo bats in regular-season games. NPB's rules committee made the decision, effective the same day, after ...

Advertisement Manfred met with his NPB counterpart, Sadayuki Sakakibara, on Sunday, the second of two days of exhibition games between MLB teams and NPB teams in Japan. “I think people are ...

Rosin bags seen on the pitching mounds in both Major League Baseball and NPB contain a powdered mixture of magnesium carbonate and pine resin. While watching a major league game on TV, Yamaguchi ...

But times are changing. Two young stars — 19-year-old Rintaro Sasaki and 18-year-old Shotaro Morii — have moved directly to American baseball, bypassing NPB restrictions and unwritten societal norms ...

The righty was made the No. 1 pick in the NPB draft before he even turned 18, and he somehow managed to even exceed that hype as a pro, dominating Japanese competition in a way that few pitchers ...

What the four exhibition games between the MLB and NPB clubs over the weekend showed, however, is that the well of talent in Japan runs deeper than the nation’s big leaguers. In a time of both ...

With the team going with a bullpen day for their first exhibition game in Japan, Merryweather opened for the Cubs against the NPB’s Hanshin Tigers. After a relatively subdued first half-inning ...

During that time, he made five NPB All-Star teams, won Central League batting titles in 2019 and 2021, and earned five Golden Glove Awards for his defense in the outfield. Suzuki helped lead Japan ...