With the Tokyo Series just over two weeks away, Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts has already revealed Yoshinobu ...

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

After graduating from the high school, Sasaki joined the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball. Last season in April, he became the youngest NPB pitcher, at 20 years and five months ...

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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 ...

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.

Nippon Professional Baseball must quickly adapt as it will continue to face challenges from the likes of Shotaro Morii, Rintaro Sasaki and others who dream of wearing major league uniforms ...

Sasaki, who has been one of the most intriguing ... He was the only pitcher in baseball to have a WHIP under 1.0 and strikeout rate above 33% during this span (minimum 10 starts), and he also ...

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

The 6-foot-2 right-handed pitcher made a name for himself in Nippon Professional Baseball with the Chiba Lotte Marines. Sasaki dazzled fans with his triple-digit fastball, while also making ...

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 ...