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 ...

The Chicago White Sox just grabbed one of the biggest international baseball players. Chicago signed Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami to a two-year deal Sunday, per ESPN. The contract is worth $34 ...

Shohei Ohtani is getting some company. On Friday morning in Japan, the national team announced the next 11 players who are ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — The first big splash of the baseball offseason in Chicago was made by the White Sox—and not the Cubs—on Sunday morning. First reported by ESPN’s Jeff Passan, a source confirmed to ...

Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami has chosen his MLB team, and it is not one that many would have predicted. Murakami, regarded as Japan’s home run king, is signing a 2-year, $34 million contract ...

A Japanese home run king officially entered the posting system Friday, opening up a 45-day negotiating window for MLB teams to court him. Munetaka Murakami, a 25-year-old slugger who plays both first ...

Some have pondered the idea of the New York Yankees moving on from Ryan McMahon after landing him at the trade deadline a year ago in a deal with the Colorado Rockies. All Yankees fans understand what ...