Dylan Hernández writes Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto has matured and improved since last season, asserting himself as a ...

Masahiro Tanaka is a similar story, a young and hyped pitcher out of Japan who spent a long time in the Majors. Beginning at age 18, he pitched seven seasons in Japan, racking up a 119-70 record ...

Pitcher Roki Sasaki is the next big thing out of Japanese baseball. It's just not clear when he will make it to Major League Baseball. The 22-year-old Sasaki just signed a contract for the coming ...

Yoshinobu Yamamoto can win the National League Cy Young Award. The possibility of Yamamoto doing that has felt increasingly real every time he has stepped on the mound this season, reaching the ...