When the international signing period opened up in January, the Athletics made a bit of a splash, signing two-way star Shotaro Morii out of Japan. The 18-year-old decided to skip the NPB Draft to ...

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed ...

The crack of the bat is almost here with Opening Day for the 2025 Major League Baseball season set for March 27. But while MLB has become known for its melting pot of backgrounds among players, this ...

Morii also signed in January, and after receiving the highest bonus ever given to an amateur out of Japan – just over $1.5 million – the exciting two-way player will make his debut later this season.

"Japanese pro baseball has the potential of becoming Brazilian domestic football, where the best players go play in Europe and the kids play at home until they're good enough to p ...

The pull of American baseball has led the likes of Rintaro Sasaki to go to Stanford University and Shotaro Morii to sign with the Athletics, both skipping NPB entirely. Nobby Ito, the official ...

TOKYO (AP) — Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball, and Ichiro Suzuki enters the Hall of Fame later this year, reminders that some of the top talent in ...