Who is Roki Sasaki?: A right-handed pitcher known for his 100 mph fast balls. Why this all matters: The 23-year-old has often been compared to fellow Japanese national and Dodger’s own superstar ...

The Rōki Sasaki saga won’t wrap up for at least two more weeks, but some light has been shed on the cherished right-handed pitcher from Japan, a focused and driven figure who will grace the ...

After Roki Sasaki was posted by the Chiba Lotte Marines on Dec. 10, his agent, Joel Wolfe, reached out to all 30 Major League Baseball teams with a letter inviting them to submit "any type of ...

With Corbin Burnes officially a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks, the free agency focus turns to the next big pitching domino set to fall: Japanese ace Roki Sasaki, who now becomes the biggest ...

The San Diego Padres are hoping to land the biggest bargain in baseball this winter: Roki Sasaki. The Japanese phenom is a starting pitcher every club would want on the roster, but there have been ...

In the ongoing competition to sign generational Japanese pitching prodigy Roki Sasaki, the Boston Red Sox looked like they were dead. During his recent trip to Los Angeles, the 23-year old Chiba ...

If Roki Sasaki had waited two more years to leave Japan, the star right-hander could have created the kind of bidding war that led to his countryman, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, signing the largest ...

The number is in: A total of 20 MLB teams submitted information to Japanese pitching phenom Roki Sasaki. The Detroit Tigers were one of those 20. Sasaki, a 23-year-old right-hander, will sign with ...

Roki Sasaki apparently does not want any A-listers to get involved in his MLB recruitment. Bob Nightengale of USA Today reported Monday that the Japanese star pitcher Sasaki has made an unusual ...

In his home country, Sasaki first jumped onto the scene in 2019 when he broke the Japanese high school fastball record, clocking a pitch at 101 mph — breaking Ohtani’s 99 mph record for the ...

Right-hander Roki Sasaki, who's seeking to make the leap from Japan to Major League Baseball, was officially posted for MLB teams on Monday, reports MLB.com. The posting-system agreement between ...