Padres Advisor Hideo Nomo Has One of Baseball's Best Traditions
For 13 years, San Diego Padres front office advisor Hideo Nomo has flown a group of kids from Japan to San Diego to ...
Ranking Ichiro Suzuki and the 25 Greatest Japanese-Born Players in MLB History
Ichiro Suzuki was one of the faces of baseball during the 2000s after making the jump from the Japanese League to join the ...
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Baseball: Darvish equals Nomo, but says he's not in his league
Yu Darvish pulled even with Hideo Nomo's career win total on Tuesday ... Darvish benefitted hugely from Nomo's move to MLB, where he proved that Japan's top stars could exceed at the highest ...
Roki Sasaki signs with the Dodgers: MLB experts discuss his fit and the fallout
For some teams in Major League Baseball, the chase for Roki Sasaki could not be measured in mere months. It lasted for years.
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Who is Shotaro Morii? And why is his signing with the Athletics such a big deal?
Not a single Japanese player appeared in MLB between 1965 and 1994. Then, in the winter of 1995, everything changed. Hideo Nomo, a starlet pitcher for the Kintetsu Buffaloes, used a loophole in ...
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MLB/ Investigation to ensure no early Sasaki deal in place, pitcher likely to pick team mid-January
However, MLB rightly wanted to make sure that this ... where Yu Darvish is on the roster and Hideo Nomo is a special adviser. “Given what he’s been through and not having an enjoyable ...
Ichiro Suzuki to be first Japanese player to make Hall of Fame. Shohei Ohtani on track to be second
Suzuki spent nine seasons with Orix in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball before joining MLB and the Mariners in 2001. While Japanese pitcher Hideo Nomo was a star for the Dodgers in the 1990s, ...