Ahead of the 2018 season, Shohei Ohtani became a highly regarded international free agent after he was posted by the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters.

Toru Ohtani and Kayoko Ohtani are the parents of Shohei Ohtani. The couple gave birth to the Los Angeles Dodgers star on July 5, 1994 in Oshu, Japan, where the pair still live as of 2025.

TOKYO (AP) — It's only two games to start the Major League Baseball season — the World Series-champion Dodgers against the ...

TOKYO (AP) — The spotlight will be on slugger Shohei Ohtani this week when the superstar returns to Japan and leads the ...

“So we just wanted to kind of slow-play it.” And will Ohtani be ready to pitch in May? “I just feel, and we all feel, [we’re] just trying to make it a broad time to return,” Roberts said.

TOKYO (AP) — Hundreds of fans at Tokyo’s Haneda airport, who lined up 10 deep and hoped to catch a glimpse of Shohei Ohtani as he arrived on Thursday, saw nothing of the Los Angeles Dodgers ...

A month ago, Dave Roberts was asked if the Dodgers’ hope was for Shohei Ohtani to be back in the team’s pitching rotation by May this season. “I think that’s about right, yeah,” the ...

Did you catch Shohei Ohtani 3.0 pitching in Arizona on Saturday? It is an Ohtani we have never seen before. In his first bullpen session of the spring after his second surgery to his right elbow ...

PHOENIX — Despite not having thrown a single pitch since August 2023 due to a second major elbow ligament reconstruction, Shohei Ohtani already is qualified for two-way player status ...

Ahead of MLB’s 2025 Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs on March 18-19, Topps and parent company Fanatics ... the popularity of Shohei Ohtani and other Japanese stars ...