It was an impressive, albeit mixed rookie season for Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The Japanese phenom looked impressive during his first campaign in the Majors, however, a strained right rotator cuff limited him to only 90 innings of work.
One conversation was reportedly "key" to the Los Angeles Dodgers landing 23-year-old Japanese stud Roki Sasaki. The flame-throwing right-hander Sasaki
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LOS ANGELES — Prized Japanese ... to sign with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. A 23-year-old right-hander whose fastball tops 100 mph, Sasaki will join fellow Japanese stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in a move many baseball ...
Magic Johnson welcomes Roki Sasaki by gifting him a signed Lakers jersey as the Dodgers’ newest star arrives in LA.
Young Japanese flamethrower Roki Sasaki said on Instagram that he's signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers, giving the defending World Series champions even more star power entering 2025.
For some teams in Major League Baseball, the chase for Roki Sasaki could not be measured in mere months. It lasted for years. One of those teams, the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers, concluded that pursuit on Friday night by landing the star pitcher from Japan.
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MLB teams have coveted Roki Sasaki since he broke Shohei Ohtani's Japanese high school record by reaching 101 mph with his fastball as a 17-year-old in 2019, part of a 194-pitch, 12-inning, 21-strikeout complete game in the national summer Koshien tournament.