Forget pitching, even the way Yusei Kikuchi moves through the world feels so much different than it did a year ago. When camp opened in 2023, Kikuchi was coming off a dreadful debut with the Blue Jays ...

Lefty Yusei Kikuchi was dominant down the stretch with the Astros last season once he started to incorporate his slider more to pair with his mid-90s fastball. But now, Kikuchi has added a new pitch ...

Yusei Kikuchi is exactly what the Angels need to be competitors, as long as they also sign three more starters and Juan Soto. And maybe that wouldn’t even be enough. Kikuchi is a start for the Halos, ...

Yusei Kikuchi‘s first two seasons in the Major Leagues didn’t go as either the Mariners or the left-hander himself hoped. After establishing himself as one of the premier pitchers in Japan by pitching ...

Veteran Kikuchi Yusei Allows Three Runs in First, Replaced After Three 34-year-old pitcher with 121 combined wins faced six hits, four strikeouts before Japans 5-3 comeback over South Korea ...

Mariners left-hander Yusei Kikuchi has told the team that he is declining his $13MM player option for the 2022 season, according to The Athletic’s Corey Brock (Twitter link). The southpaw will now ...

TORONTO — It turns out less can be more for Yusei Kikuchi. After a strong start to the season, the Blue Jays left-hander wobbled through May, when his strikeouts dropped, his walks rose and he was ...

Where they come from, there is plenty of open space. Rice field after rice field after rice field. In the distance, mountains. In the winter, snow. Shohei Ohtani and Yusei Kikuchi aren’t from the ...