Opening Day week has finally arrived and the Baseball Bar-B-Cast pod is ready with a jam packed pod to kick off the week.

The Roki Sasaki sweepstakes have been settled ... One of Nippon Professional Baseball’s top sluggers, Munetaka Murakami, is projected to become available after the 2025 season.

Myles Straw had no idea how the outcome of the Roki Sasaki sweepstakes would change his life. Ben Nicholson-Smith tells us how it's all playing out for the Blue Jays.

Then again, so have 28 other MLB teams, as the Los Angeles Dodgers have signed the three biggest names (Roki Sasaki ... there's a Japanese power hitter named Munetaka Murakami that's expected ...

Los Angeles Dodgers VP of Player Personnel hints at signing three promising Japanese prospects for the future.

Munetaka Murakami is the next great Japanese ... 272, and has hit 241 home runs in seven seasons. Also Read: Roki Sasaki Dazzles In Los Angeles Dodgers Debut Murakami is just 25 years old and ...

And Roki Sasaki, the next generational phenom ... That generation could be growing soon. Munetaka Murakami of the Yakult Swallows is among the next Japanese-born stars who have landed on major ...

"Our hope is that (an) 8-, 9- or 10-year-old kid who is the next Shohei (Ohtani) or Roki (Sasaki) or (Yoshinobu ... and come to Major League Baseball. Munetaka Murakami, a two-time Central ...