Yoshinobu Yamamoto rumors, news

Breaking news and rumors

Injuries and suspensions

Lifestyle

Trade rumors, contract, salary

Stats and scores

Family

Top stories

Fantasy rankings and news

Schedules and games

Rumors and scandals

• Yankees 2024 Breakout Closer Reveals How Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s Pitching Secret Elevated His Game
Luke Weaver, the Yankees breakout closer from last season, revealed the influence Yoshinobu Yamamoto had on his delivery change....2025
Visit the page Luke Weaver
• Dodgers’ Kiké Hernandez Compares Latin, Japanese Baseball Fans Following Tokyo Series

The Los Angeles Dodgers returned to the city after making their season debut overseas. The Dodgers’ trip to Japan was full of memorable moments, including the team’s historic Tokyo Series against the Chicago Cubs. More news: Dodgers’ Dave Roberts Believes Yoshinobu Yamamoto Could Win Cy Young This Year Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki …...2025
Read about Los Angeles Dodgers headline news
• Dodgers’ Dave Roberts Believes Yoshinobu Yamamoto Could Win Cy Young This Year

The Los Angeles Dodgers have three of the most talented players to come out of Japan in Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Roki Sasaki. More news: Dodgers’ Mookie Betts Transforming Sport of Bowling With Exciting New Venture Throughout the offseason, Ohtani and Sasaki largely dominated the headlines in Los Angeles. When will Ohtani make his …...2025
See more Los Angeles Dodgers latest news
• Dodgers, Yankees Blockbuster Trade Idea Involving All-Star Pitcher, Outfielder Ahead of Opening Day

The Los Angeles Dodgers have a surplus of pitching talent entering the 2025 season. After a postseason in which they had just three healthy starting pitchers in Jack Flaherty, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Walker Buehler, the Dodgers spared no expenses putting together a group that has the potential to be one of the best rotations in …...2025
See more articles Los Angeles Dodgers breaking news today
• Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto Has Incredible Quote About Being Teammates With Clayton Kershaw

Having a pitcher like Clayton Kershaw in the clubhouse is never a bad thing. The Los Angeles Dodgers’ future Hall of Famer not only makes the team better on the field, but he commands a certain level of respect in the clubhouse because of all that he has accomplished in parts of 17 big league …...2025
Read about Clayton Kershaw latest news
• BCB After Dark: Should Shōta have stayed in?

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images The late-night/early-morning spot for Cubs fans asks if Shōta Imanaga should have pitched longer last night. It’s Tuesday night here at BCB After Dark: the hippest hangout for night owls, early risers, new parents and Cubs fans abroad. Or it’s Wednesday afternoon if you’re in Tokyo. Either way, you’re welcome here. Come on in. There’s no cover charge. We sti...2025
See more Gene Wang news today

• Preseason Prep - March 18, 2025
Julio Rodriguez Julio had a down year in 2024, as he slashed only .273/.325/.409 compared to his line of .275/.333/.485 in 2023. He homered 32 times in 2023 and only 20 times in 2024, which is why the slugging percentage was cut by nearly 80 points. Luckily, there are plenty of reasons ot be optimistic about Julio in 2025, and the basis for that is that his underlying markers were barely changed b...2025
See more articles Julio Rodriguez injury update
• Preseason Prep - February 26, 2025
Fantasy Relevance for the Dodgers deeper rotation options? Baseball fans know that the Dodgers loaded up on starting pitching in the offseason adding 2-time Cy Young award winner Blake Snell, Phenom Roki Sasaki and re-signing the legendary Clayton Kershaw. With Shohei Ohtani expected to take the mound this year and Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow returning it's an electric top 5. That being ...2025
Continue with Cy Young injury status
• Dodgers Notes: Freedie Freeman, Brusdar Graterol Injury Update, Yoshinobu Yamamoto Says LA Will Haze Roki Sasaki

The Los Angeles Dodgers endured an injury-riddled 2024 season, but persevered until the final days of October to emerge as World Series champions. Recently, a pair of players have shared positive injury updates. Freddie Freeman revealed he is “perfectly on track” to play in the season opener when the Dodgers travel to Tokyo. Brusdar Graterol …...2025
See more Roki Sasaki
• Cub Tracks is ready for spring

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. Real games are coming soon. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and then cold-brew...2025
See more Cub Tracks injuries
• Wednesday Rockpile: Comparing NL West starting rotations from the last six seasons

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images Colorado Rockies news and links for Wednesday, February 5, 2025 Starting pitching has been a focal point of messaging for the Colorado Rockies for several years. Since reaching the playoffs in back-to-back seasons in 2017 and 2018 on the backs of a young rotation, the team has consistently said things in the realm of, “If our rotation is healthy and g...2025
See more NL West injuries
• Jack Flaherty Doesn’t Expect to Re-Sign With Dodgers, Looking Forward to Beating LA Next Year

The Los Angeles Dodgers have added two starting pitchers this offseason, and are expecting to get a handful more back from injury. Free agent additions Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki are joining Yoshinobu Yamamoto in a rotation that’s also expecting to get back Tyler Glasnow, Shohei Ohtani, and Tony Gonsolin, with other options like Dustin …...2025
See also Jack Flaherty injury update
• The best organization in baseball just won another World Series title

The Dodgers have been the cream of the crop in baseball for a long while, now. There’s no sign of that changing anytime soon, either. For the second time in five seasons, the Los Angeles Dodgers are World Series champions. For the first time since 1988, they’ll actually get to have the full treatment that comes with being World Series — meaning, the team and their fans will actually get to enjoy t...2024
Visit the page World Series injury
• Dodgers-Yankees has all the makings of a classic World Series

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images Dodgers, Yankees matchup looks like a true Fall Classic For the 12th time in history and the fifth time since one of the teams moved across the country, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees are set to clash in the World Series. Despite the fact that these are quite possibly the two most popular baseball teams in MLB, they’re also the two teams ...2024
See more articles World Series injury report
• Dodgers come to town as Braves fight for their playoff lives

Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images If the Braves are going to get back on the Postseason track, they’ll have to do it Shohei Ohtani and the rest of this star-studded squad. The Atlanta Braves are coming off of a stretch of games where they faced the Rockies, Blue Jays, the Reds for one game and the Nationals for two games. They went 5-4 in that span and are currently back on the outside...2024
Read about Shohei Ohtani injury status
• 2024 Cubs attendance watch: The weather and ticket pricing for the first homestand

David Banks-USA TODAY Sports Some interesting numbers for both as the 2024 season begins. The Cubs won five of six games played at Wrigley Field last week. So, that’s good! What wasn’t good was the weather, which was pretty awful through the entire homestand. No game-time temperature was over 47 and the average for the six dates was 43. It rained during play in three of the six games and t...2024
Click for news about David Banks injury status

• The best organization in baseball just won another World Series title
2024

See also World Series

2025
"The Dodgers have added Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki to a rotation already expected to return Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow."

2024
"In the aftermath of the offseason’s top free agent pitcher, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, signing with the Dodgers late last month, the market for #2 pitching free agent Blake Snell has begun to pick up."

2023
"Star Japanese right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto has agreed to join the Dodgers on a 12-year, $325 million contract, sources told ESPN's Jeff Passan on Thursday."

• Preseason Prep - March 18, 2025
2025

Check it out Julio Rodriguez contract rumors
• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Dodgers at Tokyo series preview

Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images Twenty-five years after the Cubs faced the Mets for two in the Tokyo Dome, they’ll play a pair against the Dodgers in the same Japanese venue. Usually, series previews here at BCB post a few hours before the series opens. But this series will be played halfway across the world at the Tokyo Dome, with the first pitch of both games scheduled...2025
See also Daniel Shirey contract rumors
• A brief history of all MLB regular season games played outside the USA and Canada

Al Yellon The Cubs are preparing to play the Dodgers in Japan. The Cubs and Dodgers will meet at the Tokyo Dome Tuesday and Wednesday to begin the 2025 regular season. This will be the fifth time MLB teams have met in Tokyo, and the second time for the Cubs, who played the Mets there 25 years ago in the first MLB series in Japan. Going forward, international MLB games are being branded as ...2025
See also Tokyo Dome salary rumors
• First Shohei Ohtani, Roki Sasaki Dodgers Bobblehead Hits Market in Limited Release

The entire baseball world finally got to witness Shohei Ohtani play postseason baseball for the first time in his MLB career and the result was a World Series title with the Los Angeles Dodgers.In the process, Ohtani also got to team up with his former teammate, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and both landed contracts that combined for …...2025
See also Shohei Ohtani salary rumors
• Spring Training Game Thread #5/6: Milwaukee Brewers (2-2) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (1-5)/@ Arizona Diamondbacks (1-4)

Photo by Todd Kirkland/Getty Images Brewers have two different opportunities to build on yesterday’s win against Cleveland Today is an exciting day to be a Brewers fan. Milwaukee has two games today for the first time this spring, giving the Brewers’ coaching staff a chance to get some extra looks at players on the roster bubble. The first game pits recent free agent signing Tyler Alexande...2025
Check it out Spring Training
• Preseason Prep - February 26, 2025
2025

Visit the page Cy Young salary rumors
• Cubs 12, Dodgers 4: Welcome to our robo-ump overlords

Major League Baseball MLB’s ABS challenge system test was used for the first time. The Cubs — or, more accurately, a bunch of miscellaneous guys wearing Cubs uniforms — defeated the Dodgers in the 2025 Spring Training opener 12-4 Thursday afternoon in Glendale, Arizona. That wasn’t the most important story of the game, as you surely know that Spring Training wins and losses are pretty well...2025
See more Spring Training contract
• Cub Tracks’ goal tending

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images #Cubs, #MLB, and #MiLB news, notes, and commentary, four days a week, rain or shine. The Cubs have their eyes on the ultimate prize. WELCOME to today’s episode of Cub Tracks news and notes™, a greatest-hits collection of Chicago-style beat writers and bloggers, ground from #Cubs, #MiLB, and #MLB baseball, overheated, steeped in writers’ tears, and ...2025
Visit the page Cub Tracks trade rumors
• Like trying to replace an old love

Today was the first chance I had to look for some 2025 Topps. The weather has been ridiculous the past seven days between a big fat snowstorm, ungodly wind for days and now sub-zero temperatures. Even the times I could get away from work, all I wanted to do was stay inside somewhere. So, a week later, I've got 2025 Topps to show. I'm not even going to say I'm late. Running out in mid-F...2025
See also Brenton Doyle contract
• Rob Manfred talks media rights, competitive balance and a possible Cubs All-Star Game

Al Yellon The Commissioner met with reporters on the annual Cactus League Media Day. PHOENIX, Arizona — It’s a rite of spring just as much as pitcher/catcher report day or the first Spring Training game. That’s the annual appearance of Commissioner Rob Manfred at a conference room at the Arizona Biltmore hotel to meet with the media. I’m glad to have been able to attend this presser so I c...2025
See more Rob Manfred

• BCB After Dark: Should Shōta have stayed in?
2025

See also Gene Wang statistics
• Dodgers 4, Cubs 1: Walkathon

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images You cannot win games walking that many opposing hitters. TOKYO — I don’t know how many times I’ve said this, but walks will just kill a baseball team. Yes, the Cubs didn’t provide much offense and that’s another story, but the five walks Shōta Imanaga and Ben Brown issued in the first five innings of this game resulted in most of the Dodgers runs, and the de...2025
Check it out Gene Wang stats
• Preseason Prep - March 18, 2025
2025

See also Julio Rodriguez statistics
• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Dodgers at Tokyo series preview
2025

Visit the page Daniel Shirey
• A brief history of all MLB regular season games played outside the USA and Canada
2025

Check it out Tokyo Dome statistics
• First Shohei Ohtani, Roki Sasaki Dodgers Bobblehead Hits Market in Limited Release
2025

Continue with Shohei Ohtani statistics
• Preseason Prep - February 26, 2025
2025

See also Cy Young
• Cubs vs. Dodgers at Glendale preview, Thursday 2/20, 2:05 CT

Photo by Matt Dirksen/Chicago Cubs/Getty Images The Cubs and Dodgers open the spring season and provide a possible preview of their upcoming Tokyo Series. First day of Spring Training notes: THE BUSCH LEAGUE: Among Cubs regulars, only Michael Busch will make the trip to Glendale for the spring opener, as you can see from the lineup below. So it would appear that the old “have to send fou...2025
Continue with Matt Dirksen
• Rob Manfred talks media rights, competitive balance and a possible Cubs All-Star Game
2025

Check it out Rob Manfred
• Wednesday Rockpile: Comparing NL West starting rotations from the last six seasons
2025

See more NL West statistics

• Dodgers’ Kiké Hernandez Compares Latin, Japanese Baseball Fans Following Tokyo Series
2025

Check it out Los Angeles Dodgers
• BCB After Dark: Should Shōta have stayed in?
2025

See more Gene Wang
• Brewers’ split squads fall to Diamondbacks, Dodgers

Photo by Chris Coduto/Getty Images Milwaukee falls to 2-4 this spring The Brewers were unable to capitalize on any positive momentum from yesterday’s game against Cleveland, losing 9-3 to the Dodgers and 7-1 to the Diamondbacks. For those of you who couldn’t catch the games, here’s a quick recap of each. LAD vs. MIL (Box Score) Milwaukee looked really good to start. The Brewers quickly wen...2025
See more articles Vinny Capra
• Brewers split squads fall to Diamondbacks, Dodgers

Milwaukee is now 2-4 this spring The Brewers were unable to capitalize on any positive momentum from yesterday’s game against Cleveland, losing 9-3 to the Dodgers and 7-1 to the Diamondbacks. For those of you who couldn’t catch the games, here’s a quick recap of each game. LAD vs. MIL Milwaukee looked really good to start. The Brewers quickly went up 3-0 on Yoshinobu Yamamoto behind the strength o...2025
Read about Vinny Capra
• Cubs 12, Dodgers 4: Welcome to our robo-ump overlords
2025

See more articles Spring Training
• Cub Tracks’ goal tending
2025

Continue with Cub Tracks
• Like trying to replace an old love
2025

See also Brenton Doyle
• Rob Manfred talks media rights, competitive balance and a possible Cubs All-Star Game
2025

Continue with Rob Manfred
• Sorting things out

I'm finally getting around to the latest big box from Johnny's Trading Spot, which arrived two weeks ago. Boxes that size are a lot to deal with amid a busy life. I had to approach it in shifts. The first thing to deal with is why Johnny sent a big box, which contained a few smaller empty boxes, plus the boxes with cards. I'm sure there was a reason but I was baffled. The other mo...2025
Click for news about Mookie Betts
• Perhaps I was too hasty

I had viewed enough 2024 Archives pack openings to know I needed to open some myself.Not that I liked the cards -- Archives and I have never seen eye-to-eye -- but I wanted to see the content for myself so I could comment on it on my own blog instead leaving irked comments all over everyone else's pack breaks.Also, there was one aspect of 2024 Archives that folks kept bringing up, but actual...2025
Check it out Teoscar Hernandez

• Sources: Yamamoto joins Dodgers on $325M deal

2023

Click for news about Jeff Passan
• Rangers Interested In Reunion With Jordan Montgomery
Left-hander Jordan Montgomery figures to be among the most sought-after free agents on the starting pitching market this offseason. With righty Aaron Nola having already returned to the Phillies on a seven-year deal earlier this week, only recently-posted right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto and reigning NL Cy Young award winner Blake Snell compare rank ahead of Montgomery…...2023
See more articles Jordan Montgomery
• Yoshinobu Yamamoto to sign with Dodgers for $325M over 12 years: 25-year-old NPB ace joins Shohei Ohtani in LA

Yamamoto was posted to MLB after seven brilliant years in NPB...2023
Continue with Shohei Ohtani
• Blue Jays Have Reportedly “Taken The Lead” In Yariel Rodriguez Sweepstakes
After missing out on top free agents Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto earlier this month, the Blue Jays have ramped up activity at the lower levels of the market of late by re-signing center fielder Kevin Kiermaier to a one-year pact and landing utility man Isiah Kiner-Falefa on a two-year deal in recent days. It…...2023
Visit the page Blue Jays
• Report: Giants Out Of Bidding For Yoshinobu Yamamoto
The Giants have been informed they’re out of the running for Yoshinobu Yamamoto, reports Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area (X link). While there’s no indication that Yamamoto has made his final decision, Pavlovic adds that the Giants expect he’ll sign with the Dodgers or one of the New York clubs. Andy Martino of SNY…...2023
Continue with Alex Pavlovic
• Angels, Giants Among Teams Pursuing Blake Snell
The Angels have lost Shohei Ohtani to the Dodgers and never appeared to be a finalist for NPB star Yoshinobu Yamamoto, but they’re pursuing the biggest fish remaining on the free agent market, per Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle, who reports that the Halos have made reigning NL Cy Young winner Blake Snell…...2023
See more Blake Snell
• Phillies Have Made Offer To Yoshinobu Yamamoto
The Phillies have put forth a formal contract offer to Yoshinobu Yamamoto, writes Matt Gelb of the Athletic. While terms are unreported, Alex Coffey of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote earlier in the week the club was planning to be aggressive in its pursuit of the NPB star. It’s notable, if unsurprising, that the Phillies have put…...2023
Visit the page Matt Gelb
• Braves reportedly willing to pay for free agent starter

Lucas Peltier-USA TODAY Sports No Braves player currently makes more than $22 million annually, but the team is reportedly willing to go above that for the right free agent starter. MLB Free Agency is off to a slow start, but that shouldn’t be terribly surprising. Unlike the NBA and the NFL, Major League Baseball’s offseason is a more deliberate affair and the free agent market won’t like...2023
See also Shohei Ohtani

1. White Sox

2. World Series

3. Red Sox

. . .

201. Yoshinobu Yamamoto

• Preseason Prep - March 18, 2025
2025

Visit the page Julio Rodriguez
• Preseason Prep - February 26, 2025
2025

Visit the page Cy Young

• Dodgers, Yankees Blockbuster Trade Idea Involving All-Star Pitcher, Outfielder Ahead of Opening Day
2025

Read about Los Angeles Dodgers
• BCB After Dark: Should Shōta have stayed in?
2025

See also Gene Wang
• Dodgers Send Mookie Betts Home Early From Tokyo Series to Recover

The Los Angeles Dodgers were faced with a tough decision regarding Mookie Betts ahead of Tuesday’s 4-1 win against the Chicago Cubs to open Major League Baseball’s regular season. Read more: Freddie Freeman Injured, Yoshinobu Yamamoto Shines as Dodgers Win Season Opener in Tokyo Series vs Cubs After the starting shortstop suffered through his trip to …...2025
Continue with Los Angeles Dodgers
• Dodgers 4, Cubs 1: Walkathon
2025

Read about Gene Wang
• Dodgers 4, Cubs 1: Yoshinobu Yamamoto starts slightly better than last year for the season-opening win to start the Japan Series
While everything about the Japan Series seems to have been a fun experience, the baseball-related stuff started ominously, as the team is already missing Mookie Betts due to illness and then a half-hour before the game they had to scratch Freddie Freeman. Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman was scratched from today’s lineup with left rib …...2025
Visit the page Mookie Betts
• Chicago Cubs vs. Los Angeles Dodgers at Tokyo preview, Tuesday 3/18, 5:10 a.m. CT

Photo by Masterpress/Getty Images The 2025 MLB season opens with a terrific pitching matchup in Japan. TOKYO — ICYMI, today’s Cubs roster moves are here. Opening Day in Japan notes... CUBS OPENING DAY HISTORY: This Opening Day game will be the Cubs’: Second outside the United States, both at Tokyo... First outside the U.S. as the home team... First as the home team at any ballpark for th...2025
See more Chicago Cubs
• Preseason Prep - March 18, 2025
2025

Continue with Julio Rodriguez
• On The Horizon: Cubs vs. Dodgers at Tokyo series preview
2025

Click for news about Daniel Shirey
• Games of the Day
I do believe it’s already the day in Japan as the Dodgers face the Cubs in Tokyo, Chicago playing as the home team on the early opening day of the 2025 season. Yoshinobu Yamamoto faces Shota Imanaga in a matchup of Japanese born stars. Both pitchers go into their sophomore year in MLB after fine […]...2025
See more Shota Imanaga
• Exclusive Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto Bobbleheads Release for Dodgers Tokyo Series

The Los Angeles Dodgers kick off their 2025 season in Tokyo against the Chicago Cubs in just one week, and the defending champions have had a busy spring training getting their new roster additions acclimated.If everyone stays healthy, L.A. could have one of the greatest rotations of pitchers in the history of the game. Blake …...2025
Continue with Los Angeles Dodgers

• SB Nation Reacts: Who’s going to sign Roki Sasaki?

Photo by Gene Wang/Getty Images A fair number of respondents to the survey chose the Cubs. Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across Major League Baseball. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Chicago Cubs fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Now that the MLB non-tender deadline has passed, thoughts ...2024
Continue with Roki Sasaki gossip
• Braves provide tl;dr of 2024 season with 9-0 loss to Dodgers

Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images Look, I’m just sayin’ — the Braves out-xBAed the Dodgers by .070 and had the only four barrels in the game, and lost 9-0 The Braves played a baseball game on Monday night, which they lost 9-0, to once again drop them out of a playoff spot (for the time being?). The flow of the game itself is, at this point, largely irrelevant. I’ll be...2024
See more articles Atlanta Braves gossip
• Dodgers come to town as Braves fight for their playoff lives
2024

Continue with Shohei Ohtani scandals
• Outside The Confines: We have a problem

Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports A major gambling scandal breaks out with Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter. A recap of the Seoul Series. A revolt in the MLBPA. And other news from MLB. I’m going to assume that you’ve already heard about the gambling scandal surrounding Shohei Ohtani and his interpreter Ippei Mizuhara. I’m going to try to give you some links that will allow you to do some furth...2024
See more articles Shohei Ohtani buzz
• Outside The Confines: Rob Manfred has an expiration date

Photo by Mike Carlson/MLB Photos via Getty Images Rejoice, baseball fans, we now have an idea of when the Manfred era will end. If we’re being honest, the role of MLB Commissioner is not an enviable one. The job, by its very nature, is inclined to create ire among fans, as the person in charge is trying to appease fans, players, but mostly owners, and the goals of those three groups rarely...2024
See also Rob Manfred gossip
• Latest On Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s Market
There’s been ample speculation about the eventual price tag of a Yoshinobu Yamamoto contract, but until early this week, the right-hander hadn’t discussed specific years and dollars with clubs, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reports. Teams eyeing the NPB ace’s services were asked to submit a “preliminary” bid early in the process to gauge the seriousness of…...2023
Click for news about Jeff Passan
• Mets Interested In Jung Hoo Lee
Most of the offseason buzz surrounding the Mets has focused on their pursuits of pitching, but USA Today’s Bob Nightengale reports that the Amazins also have “strong interest” in outfielder Jung Hoo Lee. Between New York’s known interest in Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shota Imanaga, and now Lee, it is clear that the Mets are taking a…...2023
Check it out Jung Hoo Lee scandals