Ichiro Suzuki News

The American League Gold Glove team will be announced Tuesday as baseball's awards season reaches full song for the next week.

Hideki Matsui's Game 6 heroics make splash on Japanese TV Wednesday night ... Hideki Matsui isA front-page news, and not just here.

A Major League-best 24-game improvement last season provided a good start for the Mariners' new regime, but taking the next step could be just as challenging.

For many Japanese, Hideki Matsui is a man of contradictions - a towering hulk with a sensitive heart, a player of fierce self-discipline known for lewd jokes and a national hero who refuses to play for his country at international tournaments, much to the chagrin of his home fans.

Free agent Matsui says he might like to join his pal Ichiro in Seattle next year.

Recent moves created five openings on the Mariners' 40-man roster and it will be interesting to see how general manager Jack Zduriencik goes about filling them.

While he didn't play much of a role after being acquired by the Seattle Mariners last July, shortstop Jack Wilson was one of three Mariners to earn 2009 Fielding Bible Awards as the top defenders at their position in the major leagues in the Bill James Handbook 2010.

Joe Mauer is more than the heartbeat of the Twins, the frontrunner for the American League Most Valuable Player award and Baseball America's 2009 Major League Player of the Year.

HANAMAKI, Iwate Pref. Yusei Kikuchi's decision to begin his professional career in Japan relieved Japanese baseball officials Sunday, but it appeared to be largely driven by the older people around the 18-year-old, not by himself.

The major problem with a player like Aroldis Chapman coming into MLB is that he can do so by skirting the rules to avoid the MLB Draft.

For the fourth time in his Seattle Mariners career, Ichiro Suzuki has been named to the Sporting News American League All-Star team.

IMAGES Ichiro Suzuki, 2006.[Credits : AP] Main Japanese athlete born Oct. 22, 1973, Kasugai, Japan professional baseball player, the first nonpitcher to shift from Japanese professional baseball to the American major leagues.

On their last venture into Japan, the Indians signed right-hander Masa Kobayashi to a two-year, $6.2 million deal.

Curry rice, which is a staple in the Japanese diet, has recently been finding its way to the breakfast table , and fast-food shops are including it on their menu .

Baseball's postseason history is chock-full of legendary performances, mysterious happenings, amazing plays and epic failures.

A New Hampshire woman charged with second-degree murder in a fatal crash that followed an argument over the Yankees and Red Sox says her statements to police were coerced and can't be used as evidence.

Mariners catcher Rob Johnson, who was right-hander Felix Hernandez's personal catcher for most of the season, will have surgery on Friday to repair a torn labrum in his right hip, the first of several surgeries he faces in the next several weeks.

Of all the professional ballplayers who've crossed the planet, moving from east to west, none have hit balls with greater power, or thrived under greater scrutiny, than designated hitter and designated hero Hideki Matsui, a 35-year-old member of the New York Yankees.

Matsui is not the best Japanese power hitter of all time. But he is certainly the best power hitter Japan has ever exported to Major League Baseball, and his success at the highest level -- as a central, if not starring figure, for the flagship franchise -- explains why, even seven years after his arrival here, a 40-person Japanese press core travels with the Yankees, strictly documenting the life and times and knee problems of one.

A personal approach manager Don Wakamatsu called a "belief system" worked wonders during his first year as a Major League manager.

American agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug had deep links with Japan crossbreeding the wheat seed developed in the country with varieties of the grain and helping other nations boost food production.