will be fined by their respective teams for illegally using online casinos, NPB said Monday. The eight teams determined the fines for each of the players involved based on how much and how often ...

Advertisement Manfred met with his NPB counterpart, Sadayuki Sakakibara, on Sunday, the second of two days of exhibition games between MLB teams and NPB teams in Japan. “I think people are ...

Yet, at a time when MLB is aggressively trying to leverage Ohtani’s rise for its own gain in Japan — and making no secret of those ambitions — the 12-team NPB is not moving with nearly the ...

Citations: Dale, Donald, William Gryc. 2015. Re?finements to the MLB-NPB Posting System: A Clear Win for Japanese Players and Loss for Japanese Teams. Journal of Sports Economics.