Yamamoto pitched once per week during his time in Nippon Professional Baseball, whereas most MLB starters take the mound every four or five days.
Prior to the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball officially posting right-hander Roki Sasaki for major league clubs last month, Major League Baseball conducted an investigation ...
New Dodger Sasaki says baseball ‘journey just beginning’, gets US$6.5 million signing bonus
Baseball's Dodgers sign Japanese pitcher Sasaki
The Dodgers bolstered their starting rotation on Wednesday with the addition of right-hander Roki Sasaki, who will join fellow Japanese pitchers Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Los Angeles, the team said in a statement.
Dodgers Welcome Roki Sasaki to Star-Studded Rotation
The Los Angeles Dodgers have signed Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki to a one-year, $6.5 million contract. Sasaki joins fellow Japanese stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The 23-year-old pitcher previously played for the Chiba Lotte Mariners,
Those numbers helped him to his third straight Triple Crown in the Pacific League of Nippon Professional Baseball as he led the league in wins, ERA and strikeouts.
The San Diego Padres, long viewed among the favorites to sign the next "big thing" from Nippon Professional Baseball, remain among the very few teams with a chance to sign him. According to ...
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Top prospect Shotaro Morii bypasses Japanese baseball to sign with AthleticsHoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball ... whether the success of Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Hideki Matsui, Yu Darvish ...
Roki Sasaki is set to make his decision to join an MLB team in the next 10 days and most of the signs point towards the young Japanese flamethrower signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
The Los Angeles Dodgers cemented their status as Major League Baseball's new "Evil Empire" this offseason with a raft of acquisitions that position the team as favorites to repeat as World Series champions.
Japanese phenom and now Los Angeles Dodgers rookie pitcher Roki Sasaki revealed which American food he is most looking forward to, now that he will be in the United States.
The Dodgers officially welcomed Roki Sasaki in a news conference at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday, and he will now prepare for a highly anticipated rookie MLB season.
What do you buy for the team that has everything? That is the question that the Los Angeles Dodgers have been wrestling with this winter. The answer, it would appear, is Roki Sasaki.
Ohtani sent a text to Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman even before Sasaki’s agent informed the club.
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