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

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 ...

Dustin Pedroia was one of the greatest second basemen of his generation, but injuries could cost the former Red Sox star a place in the Hall of Fame.

(Of the 30 Major League pitchers on that list, four of them -- Senga, Hideo Nomo, Yu Darvish and Daisuke Matsuzaka -- are Japanese natives.) But Senga only pitched in 29 games, whereas Carroll played ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. As a high ...

That was how players like Daisuke Matsuzaka and Yu Darvish earned massive windfalls worth more than $50 million for their NPB clubs. The system eventually changed so that these days, Japanese players ...

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.