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

team fits: Where does Roki Sasaki slot in? Sasaki can light up a radar gun. His fastball has clocked in over 102 mph in Japan and touched 101.9 at the World Baseball Classic, where he sat 100.5 ...

CHIBA--Japanese ace Roki Sasaki will be available to Major League Baseball teams this offseason. The Chiba Lotte Marines announced Saturday they have chosen to start the process of moving the ...

The 2023 World Baseball Classic, when the baseball world at large got an up-close look at Sasaki as he won gold with Samurai Japan, further convinced Sasaki that he was best served ... in the world ...

What do you buy for the team that has everything? That is the question that the Los Angeles Dodgers have been wrestling with this winter. The answer, it would appear, is Roki Sasaki.

The Roki Sasaki sweepstakes has come to an end ... He won a gold medal as part of the 2023 Samurai Japan World Baseball Classic squad. He posted a 29-15 record with a 2.10 ERA and a 0.894 WHiP ...

Last year, two-way star Ohtani and pitcher Yamamoto helped the Dodgers win the World Series in their first season with the team. The pair were also teammates with Sasaki on the 2023 World Baseball ...

The 23-year-old right-hander with a sizzling fastball and deadly splitter joins Samurai ... Japan’s 2023 World Baseball Classic championship team is joining him in Los Angeles. Roki Sasaki ...

who played as catcher for Lotte and for the Samurai Japan national team at the 2006 World Baseball Classic and 2008 Olympics, had this to say on his popular YouTube channel: “From Sasaki Rōki ...