MLB teams have coveted Roki Sasaki since he broke Shohei Ohtani's Japanese high school record by reaching 101 mph with his ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers pulled off their biggest coup of the offseason with Roki Sasaki announcing ... of The Athletic, Sasaki wanted information on his fastball velocity decreasing during the ...

Signing Roki Sasaki ... on average, and though at just under 97 mph it’s still impressive gas, the pitch does not have elite shape and may be more dependent on that velocity than other fastballs ...

Once Juan Soto was off the market, the Roki Sasaki sweepstakes immediately ... Sasaki’s key pitch is his fastball, but his average fastball velocity dropped from 98.8 mph in 2023 to 96.8 mph ...

After finishing fourth in the National League Central in 2024, the Cincinnati Reds are primed to make noise in 2025. The Reds ...

Roki Sasaki did what everyone expected him to do ... He also has a 90- to 92-mph slider that’s more of an average pitch, serving as a different look from the split or fastball but without ...

The rest of the baseball world might have always thought the Dodgers were getting Roki Sasaki ... After his velocity slightly dipped in Japan last season, Sasaki wanted club officials to identify ...

Roki Sasaki had a question: Why did his velocity fall off? That was the homework assignment around which execs built their pitches (pun intended) to the Japanese sensation. The article makes it ...

Japanese right-hander Roki Sasaki has announced ... Thanks to triple-digit velocity on his fastball and a deadly splitter, he has managed to post a 2.10 earned run average in 394 2/3 innings ...

Had Sasaki, 23, made a different decision and gone with the Yankees instead of the Dodgers, Cedeno — and some of the other ...

Less than a week after announcing he would sign with the Dodgers in one of this offseason’s major free agency coups, 23-year-old Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki ... and heavy velocity caught the ...