The Major League Baseball season officially kicks off Tuesday morning as the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs meet in Japan for the two-game Tokyo Series. It's a highly-anticipated matchup as ...

Kazuhiro Sasaki came over to the Mariners in 2000 and promptly won American League Rookie of the Year honors. He is still the team's record holder for saves (129). Ichiro Suzuki came over in 2001 ...

See, the Mariners used to have a huge footprint and huge relevance in Japan. Kazuhiro Sasaki and Ichiro Suzuki each won the Rookie of the Year award in the American League, and Ichiro won the MVP ...

At first, it was mostly pitchers who came from Japan to play in the U.S. Shigetoshi Hasegawa was a quality reliever for the Angels and Mariners starting in the late 1990s, and Kazuhiro Sasaki was an ...

Boyd grew up roughly 30 minutes outside Seattle and became a big Mariners fan when the organization featured two Japanese stars, the legendary Ichiro Suzuki and closer Kazuhiro Sasaki. Boyd later ...

However there are others, and in honor of the Toyko Series, we want to highlight one of them now: Closer Kazuhiro Sasaki. Sasaki came to the Mariners before the 2000 season after 10 year-career in ...