These massages can be long, from 45 minutes to two hours, leaving Gilbert -- and many Mariners players -- extended time to connect with manual therapist Kazuhiro Yamamoto, who oversees these ...

Yamamoto, a teammate with Sasaki on the Japan national team during their gold medal run in the World Baseball Classic, was reportedly “playing an important role in whether the Dodgers land him ...

Yamamoto, who signed a massive $325 million deal with LA last offseason, knows how the Dodgers help ease the transition from NPB to MLB, including using a six-man rotation to give pitchers more rest.