This week, Suzuki returned to his hometown of Tokyo, representing the Cubs in his fourth MLB season. “My goal is to stay in this league and play for as long as I can, until my body stops working,” Suzuki said. “Here [in MLB] it’s so hard with age, but also, whenever your performance drops, there’s always that next guy up.”

Suzuki was showered with applause in his return to Japan as a member of the Chicago Cubs, but it was the Hanshin Tigers who came out on top in the exhibition game.

Seiya Suzuki remembers being in the Tokyo Dome when Hideki Matsui returned with the Yankees as part of MLB’s season-opening series in 2004. Matsui launched a mammoth home run deep into the right-field stands and a 9-year-old Suzuki was within the wild,

The Chicago Cubs are just days away from getting their 2025 campaign officially started with a two-game regular season set against the Los Angeles Dodgers in th

The Cubs looked jet-lagged in their first Tokyo Exhibition game. The Cubs squared off against the Hanshin Tigers of the Nippon Professional Baseball League and lost 3-0. This is the first of two exhibitions game the Cubs will play before starting their season against the Dodgers on Tuesday.