The problem from Chiba Lotte's perspective – and from Sasaki's perspective to some extent – is that Sasaki's age and relative lack of NPB service time mean that he'd be subject to MLB's bonus ...

the lack of a posting fee could mean more money going directly to the player. The Cubs were willing to give Imanaga a $53M ...

the lack of a posting fee could mean more money going directly to the player. The Cubs were willing to give Imanaga a $53MM guarantee but also paid $9.825MM to the Yokohama BayStars, his NPB club ...

The NPB clubs hold those rights, and therefore, the final say over the endorsement deals players make. Advertisement But NIL is not the only battle underway for the Japan Professional Baseball ...

In July, Tony Clark, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, visited Japan to announce support for players in NPB. Japanese players are trying to take control of their ...

Earlier this season while waiting in the visiting Dodgers clubhouse in Cincinnati, I had a question for the Japanese ...

When people strike us as particularly “well-educated,” this might mean that they’ve had lots of school, Valiant writes, but it could also mean that they’re exceptionally educable ...

It measures how far each number in the set is from the mean (average), and thus from every other number in the set. Variance is often depicted by this symbol: σ 2. It is used by both analysts and ...

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The median is often compared with other descriptive statistics such as the mean which means average, mode, and standard deviation. The median is the middle number in a sorted list of numbers and ...