Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball ... Athletics that includes a signing bonus of $1,510,500. Top Japanese players traditionally have signed first with Nippon Professional ...

Roki Sasaki was the talk of the offseason as he made the jump from Nippon Professional Baseball to the stateside baseball. The 23-year-old was pegged as one of the best young pitchers in the world ...

Just days before Japan's World Series begins, Nippon Professional Baseball said two more Yomiuri Giants admitted to betting on baseball. Satoshi Fukuda was found in early October to have bet.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japan Professional Baseball Players Association said Monday it is looking to propose setting up a paternity leave system, recently used by Los Angeles Dodgers' star Shohei ...