Aoyagi, 31, spent nine seasons in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball league, where he posted a 3.08 ERA over 898⅓ innings ...

The Phillies have been trying to get into the Japanese baseball market for years. They hope Koyo Aoyagi is the first step.

"Getz is getting a good group together on the hitting side to get this thing off the ground and running in the right direction.” ...

A 23-year-old right-hander whose fastball tops 100 mph, Sasaki will join fellow Japanese stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu ...