Hideo Nomo was the first Japanese-born player to ... besides finishing in fourth spot in the Cy Young race. Shohei Ohatni is gearing up to make his first start for the Dodgers this year (Image ...

Spencer Schwellenbach began last season at the High-A level, made his MLB debut less than two months later and then spent the ...

Hunter Greene will be the Reds’ Opening Day starter. Anyone surprised? Hands? “His stuff is pretty special,” Reds manager ...

Few players, if any, enter the 2025 season with higher expectations than Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes. Will he live ...

Skenes was also the first rookie pitcher to start an All-Star game since Los Angeles Dodgers right-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo in 1995. If Skenes were to win the NL Cy Young Award in 2025 ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers signing young Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki ... MLB ranks began in earnest in 1995 with the arrival of Hideo Nomo, who also pitched for the Dodgers and even spent the ...

It’s safe to say that when he offers a compliment to a young pitcher ... Yates said that he saw Hideo Nomo in Sasaki’s splitter. “It’s nasty,” said Yates of Sasaki’s signature splitter.

Over his career he's won two Sawamura Awards (the NBP's Cy Young equivalent ... from Masahiro Tanaka to Hideo Nomo. It would be quite a surprise if Sugano performed at that level, but he enters ...

Looking back at the Dodgers from 1990 to 1999, a period that saw five Rookies of the Year and two postseason berths but no ...