NEW YORK – Shohei Otani, the next impact player from Japan, is preparing a 2018 MLB debut and it isn’t a stretch to picture him in pinstripes. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman was among a ...

TORONTO (AP) The Los Angeles Angels are pushing back Shohei Ohtani's next outing as a starting pitcher to manage the workload of the two-way rookie, meaning he'll miss a much-anticipated showdown ...

Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani has the top-selling MLB jersey for the first half of 2025 season. Teammates Mookie Betts and ...

It's Shohei Ohtani, not Shohei Otani. Getty Ohtani hit .332/.403/.540 and struck out 29 batters in 25 1/3 innings this season.

The belief is Otani will be grandfathered in or that some other avenue will be created to provide Nippon-Ham a larger sum than 15 to 20 percent of what Otani would sign for with an MLB team.

Back in October 2012, teenage phenom Shohei Otani had the baseball world buzzing with excitement after he expressed a desire to sign with an MLB team out high school in Japan rather than begin his ...