“I think there’s still an immense amount of pressure from the high school baseball coaches to stay,” noted ... (The frustration) is more from the NPB teams’ perspective and the older ...

“I love how Japanese baseball is so much more fundamentally pure,” said Shimizu, who spent many years as a youth baseball coach ... ambitions — the 12-team NPB is not moving with nearly ...

who joined the team ahead of the match between the Samsung Lions and the LG Twins at Lions Park in Daegu on the 10th, looked at the fielders' movements with keen eyes. Coach Imae played for NPB ...

The six-time NPB All-Star is currently on pace ... racing BMX at his local Rockford BMX track or coaching his local youth travel baseball team.

Last year, righthander Yoshinobu Yamamoto signed with the Dodgers as one of the best pitchers to come over from Nippon Pro Baseball (NPB) in several years. He did not rank on the Baseball America ...

NPB clubs are allowed to “post” players for MLB teams to bid on prior to those players reaching free agency for the first time (nine years of service, under NPB rules). Any major league team ...