Daisuke Matsuzaka’s pitch sailed out of the strike zone, giving the batter a free trip to first base. But the crowd in Saitama Prefecture and players and coaches from both teams gave the pitcher ...

There’s been a lot of smoke about the Red Sox and Juan Soto, featuring breathless reports about phone calls between Soto and ...

Pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka, a high school phenom who went on to international fame and glory, including a World Series championship, has decided to call it quits from professional baseball.

The only other No. 1 Red Sox prospects in Baseball America history were right-hander Daisuke Matsuzaka in 2007 and outfielder Andrew Benintendi in 2017. Abreu is far from Mookie Betts, but it’s not ...

Beginning in 1964 when the San Francisco Giants signed pitcher Masanori Murakami through Hideo Nomo, Hideki Matsui, Ichiro Suzuki, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Masataka Yoshida, Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu ...

Roki Sasaki has MLB free agency buzzing even more so than they already were with Juan Soto on the market this offseason. The 23-year-old Japanese pitcher is set ...

I got asked to join the Florida Marlins as hitting coach for their rookie ball team and that led to scouting, where I have identified players such as Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Okajima.

For instance, Daisuke Matsuzaka was celebrated for throwing 250 pitches in a 17-inning complete game in the national high school tournament, known as the Koshien. That mentality is waning.

One of the most interesting names to watch this offseason will be Roki Sasaki. Although there is no guarantee that he will be posted by his Japanese team, the Chiba Lotte Marines. If he is, he ...

such as Daisuke Matsuzaka, just got a ton of money without doing anything to earn it. It’s time for the commissioner to take the lead on this and fix the rules that allow for this." He added ...

Or closer to home, a fellow by the name of Daisuke Matsuzaka. When they made their pitch to Ohtani in 2017, the Red Sox did so as legitimate contenders coming off a division title with a roster ...