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Report: Shohei Ohtani Expected To Be Posted December 2

Nov 21, 2017

Breaking News, Contract, Headlines, Major League Baseball, Offseason, Rumors

Shohei Ohtani will be making the move to the majors next year, as MLB, MLBPA and NPB reaches a tentative agreement on a new posting system earlier tonight. According to Jim Allen of the Kyodo News, the expectat...

Shohei Otani Plans to Sign With MLB Club After Season

Ryan Waterman

Apr 8, 2017

Headlines, Major League Baseball, Offseason, Rumors

We're not even a full week into the start of the season, and this offseason is already guaranteed to be among the most interesting we've seen in some time. In an interview with "60 Minutes" that will air thi...

Report: Nippon-Ham Fighters Planning to Post Shohei Otani Next Season

Ryan Waterman

Dec 5, 2016

Headlines, Major League Baseball, Offseason, Rumors

Shohei Otani. The name that has been the talk of Major League Baseball all offseason long. Despite talk of the Nippon-Ham Fighters possibly posting the two-way superstar, he will not be posted this offseason...

Can Shohei Otani be Successful in MLB?

Cory Fallon

Nov 14, 2016

Features, Offseason

Over 18,000 men have played Major League Baseball. Of those, 54 were born in Japan and came to the United States in order to compete at the highest level of baseball in the world. Masanori Murakami became the f...

Matt Murton Returns To Cubs With Minor League Deal

Zach Bernard

Feb 4, 2016

Chicago Cubs, Headlines, Transactions

The year was 2006. The housing market is beginning to struggle. The world was captivated by films like Talladega Nights, Snakes On A Plane and another Pirates Of The Caribbean film. Junior high students everywh...

MLB Chooses Players For The Japan All-Star Series In Japanese Cities

Baseball Essential

Nov 9, 2014

Headlines

On Friday, the Major League Baseball announced that players have been chosen to take on a trip to Japan for seven total games to take on players from the Japanese All-Star squad, according to ESPN. This is the ...

Ichiro Suzuki Plans To Play At Least One More Season