Pitchers and catchers have started to report around Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Dodgers' quest for back-to-back ...
Inside the Dodgers’ seven-year pursuit of Rōki Sasaki, their foothold in Japan and the battle for MLB's next potential pitching star.
Sasaki came to the Dodgers with four years of experience in Japan. He went 30-15 with a 2.02 ERA, 0.883 WHIP, and 524 strikeouts over 414.2 innings. In his time with Nippon Professional Baseball ...
After being posted last month by his Nippon Professional Baseball league club, the Chiba Lotte Marines, Sasaki effectively became eligible to sign with an MLB team when the international signing ...
Shohei Ohtani reportedly played a large role in starting pitcher Rōki Sasaki signing with the ... and impressive splitter with Nippon Professional Baseball's Chiba Lotte Marines over the past ...
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- The Dodgers bolstered their starting rotation on Wednesday with the addition of right-hander Roki Sasaki ... Mariners of the Nippon Professional Baseball league.
The Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball announced today that they ... rotation after the club parted ways with Roki Sasaki via the posting system last month.
Sasaki was made available to MLB teams for a 45-day window by the Chiba Lotte Marines of Japan’s Pacific League under the posting agreement between Nippon Professional Baseball and MLB.
Sasaki joins the World Series champions after spending the last four seasons with the Chiba Lotte Marines of the Nippon Professional Baseball league. The 6-foot-2-inch pitcher whose fastball can ...
For the second straight offseason, the days leading into one of Japan's most talented baseball exports announcing ... Dodgers awaited the decision of Rōki Sasaki, the latest pitching phenom ...
They signed Blake Snell and Japanese phenom Rōki Sasaki ... Sasaki's expectations are higher than Snell's. Sasaki pitched in Nippon Professional Baseball for four seasons before making the ...