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

clearing the path for the hard-throwing 23-year-old to transfer from Nippon Professional Baseball to MLB. Sasaki will be subject to international amateur free-agent restrictions, making him ...

Flamethrowing right-hander Rōki Sasaki announced on Instagram ... innings with a 3.52 ERA during the 2023 WBC. In Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, he struck out 129 hitters in 111 regular ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

With a fastball that frequently touches 100 mph and a splitter that baffles hitters, Sasaki has shined in four seasons playing with the Chiba Lotte Marines in Japan's top professional baseball league.

Inside the Dodgers’ seven-year pursuit of Rōki Sasaki, their foothold in Japan and the battle for MLB's next potential pitching star.

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 ...