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A total of 81 Japanese-born [1] [2] players have played in at least one Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Of these players, eleven are on existing MLB rosters.The first instance of a Japanese player playing in MLB occurred in 1964, when the Nankai Hawks, a Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) team, sent three exchange prospects to the United States to gain experience in MLB's minor league system.
Non-Japanese players who played in Japan are also included in this list. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Shohei Ohtani (Japanese: 大谷 翔平, Hepburn: Ōtani Shōhei, pronounced [oːtaɲi ɕoːheː]; born July 5, 1994) is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher and designated hitter (DH) for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball (MLB).
This category is for Japanese baseball players who currently play or have played in Major League Baseball. Pages in category "Major League Baseball players from Japan" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total.
Last season, Ohtani replaced Suzuki in the MLB record books as the Japanese-born player with the most stolen bases in a season (59 for Ohtani, 56 for Suzuki in 2001).
Aided by Major League Baseball's decision to allow All-Star voting in Japan, Suzuki was the first rookie to lead all players in voting for the All-Star Game. That winter, he won the American League Most Valuable Player and the Rookie of the Year awards, becoming only the second player in MLB history (after Fred Lynn ) to receive both honors in ...
Japan has a rich, layered baseball history, but until 1995, only one Japanese-born and -raised player had ever reached Major League Baseball. That trailblazer was Masanori Murakami.
The Los Angeles Dodgers slugger crushed his 176th career homer in the third inning, breaking Hideki Matsui's record for the most home runs hit by a Japanese-born player in Major League Baseball. Ohtani drove Adrian Houser's pitch deep into the right field bleachers in the third inning of Los Angeles' 10-0 victory over the New York Mets at ...