The Los Angeles Dodgers won the Rōki Sasaki sweepstakes in the offseason, but he has not panned out as the team had hoped. Sasaki was a superstar in Japan as a starter. The Dodgers hoped he would ...

Editor's Note: The story below originally ran in November, after Roki Sasaki's NPB team pledged to post the Japanese star pitcher. Sasaki announced Friday he was signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Rōki Sasaki signed with the Dodgers after they'd scouted him for nearly seven years. (Photo by Brian Rothmuller/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) The Dodgers are even in the process of starting a ...

The 2024 Cy Young Awards were announced in November, and Chris Sale and Tarik Skubal are great. But the next Cy Young Award ...

The New York Mets, along with many other MLB teams, received the news they were hoping for this offseason. On Saturday, the Chiba Lotte Marines of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball announced they ...

Roki Sasaki will face arguably his toughest test as a high-leverage reliever against the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League Division Series. One day after Sasaki's wicked fastball/splitter ...

In what's become a rollercoaster rookie season in Major League Baseball, Dodgers pitcher Roki Sasaki at least hasn't lost his sense of humor. Sitting before reporters in Philadelphia on Friday, one ...

Considering their status as the reigning World Series champions, we have to imagine that the Los Angeles Dodgers always envisioned that rookie pitcher Roki Sasaki would play a major role in any ...

Roki Sasaki delivered another encouraging outing in relief, with two strikeouts in a scoreless seventh inning on Friday night. Given the current beleaguered state of the bullpen and the stuff Sasaki ...

After a memorable opener at the Tokyo Dome, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs face off in the second game of the 2025 season on Wednesday – with phenom Rōki Sasaki making his MLB debut in his ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers have become a common landing spot recently for Nippon Professional Baseball players making the jump to Major League Baseball. Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shohei Ohtani and Rōki Sasaki ...