Pitchers and catchers have started to report around Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Dodgers' quest for back-to-back ...

Stanford star freshman Rintaro Suzuki and the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani both attended the same high school in Japan, where ...

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 ...

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.

Since the 23-year-old phenom Roki Sasaki was posted by his Nippon Professional Baseball team — the Chiba Lotte Marines — in early December, 20 teams initially showed interest in the right-hander.

Rintaro Sasaki certainly lived up to the yearlong hype surrounding his debut at Stanford. The slugging first baseman went 6 ...

Sasaki, who has been one of the most intriguing arms in Japan dating back to his high ... He was the only pitcher in baseball to have a WHIP under 1.0 and strikeout rate above 33% during this ...

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 ...