KBO & NPB Looking At Matt Harvey

Jon Heyman Twitter

Two Players From Yomiuri Test Positive For Coronavirus

Jason Coskrey Twitter

Alfredo Despaigne & Yurisbel Gracial Will Not Be At The Start Of Baseball In Japan

Cubans Alfredo Despaigne and Yurisbel Gracial will not be at the start of the 2020 season of the Japanese Professional Baseball League because they remain in Cuba due to the Covid-19 pandemic and will not have time to travel to that country and meet the mandatory quarantine period before the tournament begins.  (Translated)

Diario de Cuba

NPB To Open Season June 19, 2020

Kaz Nagatsuka Twitter

Alfredo Despaigne Will Likely Miss Start Of NPB Season

NPB On Reddit Twitter

How Matt Keough Helped Cardinals In Chase For Title

A stint with the Cardinals enabled Matt Keough to share a championship season with his father.

RetroSimba

Sports Agents Squabble Over Brandon Dickson's Contract

A St. Charles sports agent is suing a former partner in a dispute over their share of a former St. Louis Cardinals pitcher's salary in Japan.

Post-Dispatch

NPB Cleared To Begin Planning For Fan-Free Start

With the stage of emergency lifted in the Kansai region and soon to be reevaluated in the greater Tokyo area, both Nippon Professional Baseball and the J. League have been given the go-ahead to start planning their seasons — without fans, for now.

Japan Times

Hiroshima Lets Fans Into Practice

The Hiroshima Carp opened up some parts of Mazda Stadium on Thursday, allowing some lucky fans the chance to watch the Central League club work out during their first practice in nearly a month and a half.

Kyodo News

World Baseball Classic To Be Postponed From 2021 To 2023

The World Baseball Classic will be postponed from 2021 to 2023 because of the new coronavirus, a person familiar with the planning tells The Associated Press.

Fox Sports Midwest

NPB Aiming For June Start, All-Star Game Canceled

Nippon Professional Baseball Commissioner Atsushi Saito said Monday the organization's 12 teams are aiming to start the 2020 season in the second half of June following postponement due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The Mainichi

NPB All-Star Games Could Be Cancelled For 2020 Season

NPB On Reddit Twitter

Matt Keough Dies At 64

Matt Keough, a former major league pitcher and an occasional figure on "Real Housewives of Orange County," died Friday at the age of 64. The cause was not made public.

CNN

Carter Stewart Eager To Prove Himself In Japan

Pitcher Carter Stewart, last season's history-making signing for the Pacific League's Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, is learning to make the most of his eye-opening opportunity to play in Japan while dealing with the constraints imposed by the coronavirus pandemic.

Japan Times

Alfredo Despaigne Selected By Fans For NPB Dream Team Of Last Ten Years

NPB On Reddit Twitter

Alfredo Despaigne, Yurisbel Gracial Would Return To Japan In June

According to the Nikkan Sports newspaper, Cubans Alfredo Despaigne and Yurisbel Gracial will not be able to return to Japan to join the training of the Falcons of SoftBank until June or even July, depending on what happens with the coronavirus pandemic.  (Translated)

Pelota Cubana Blog

NPB Opening Day Tentavively Scheduled For June 19, 2020

NPB On Reddit Twitter

Baseball In Japan During The 1918 Spanish Flu Epidemic

As Major League Baseball has delayed the opening of the 2020 season due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, baseball’s first interruption since the 1994 strike, so has the Nippon Professional Baseball league, delaying its season for the first time since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. Below is a look at baseball in Japan over 100 years ago, during another deadly virus outbreak.

Our Game

Vicente Padilla Would Like To Pitch & Manage For Chinandega

La Prensa

NPB Cancels Interleague Play As Delay To Start Season Continues

Nippon Professional Baseball will not host interleague contests this season with the start of the campaign still delayed due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, the circuit announced in an online news conference on Friday.

Japan Times