Every Yankees Japanese player through the years, from Hideki Irabu to Masahiro Tanaka
Shohei Ohtani may be the biggest Japanese star in MLB currently, but the Yankees have employed a solid run of Japanese stars ...
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How Yankees are addressing Japanese rut with record-setting slugger coming to MLB in 2026
Besides Matsui and Tanaka, 2025 Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki enjoyed spending some of his final seasons with the Yankees. The Yankees’ first Japanese player was pitcher Hideki Irabu, who was with ...
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Baseball: Jeter leads Ichiro praise after U.S. Hall of Fame election
Derek Jeter, Sadaharu Oh and Hideki Matsui were among many to ... The 51-year-old Ichiro, Major League Baseball's first Japanese position player in 2001, had his record-studded 19-year career ...