Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes is knocking on the door of being viewed as the best pitcher in baseball. For now, though, that day hasn't quite arrived y ...

On February 13, 1995, the Los Angeles Dodgers signed star Japanese pitcher Hideo Nomo to ... That made Nomo the first Japanese-born pitcher to appear in an MLB game since Masanori Murakami pitched ...

Hideo Nomo was the first Japanese-born player to relocate permanently to the MLB. He enjoyed a phenomenal start to his major league career upon his major league debut with the Dodgers in 1995.

The Dodgers have the Roki Sasaki and Shohei Ohtani collaboration to look forward too, prompting a huge vision from Andrew ...

You said he has clean mechanics. What are "clean" mechanics? I understand smooth (he doesn't look like Kevin Appier or Hideo Nomo) and consistent (he looks the same on every pitch from the press ...

Few players, if any, enter the 2025 season with higher expectations than Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes. Will he live up to them? MLB.com's Will Leitch ...

Imanaga didn't need much time to acclimate to MLB. He went 15-3 with a 2.91 ERA ... The 1995 NL Rookie of the Year was Hideo Nomo. He was 26 years old and already had five years of NPB experience.

Skenes went on to become the fifth rookie pitcher to start the MLB All-Star Game, and first since Hideo Nomo in 1995. Skenes, who the Pirates selected first overall in 2023, was 11-3 with a 1.96 ...