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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

St. Louis Cardinals never really had a chance with Roki Sasaki Thankfully for St. Louis, there was one affordable ace on the market this winter in 23-year-old Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki.

Age: 23 WAR: N/A ERA: 2.35 IP: 111 SO: 129 (NPB stats) Agent: Wasserman (Sasaki can only be signed through each team’s international bonus pools, which range from roughly $5.1 million to $7.5 ...

Japanese ace Roki Sasaki is still hanging around on the open market, waiting for the 2025 international amateur free agency period to open on Jan. 15. He won't have long to make a decision from ...

The San Diego Padres are among the frontrunners to land Roki Sasaki, in part because of his relationship with Yu Darvish. However, the Padres ace doesn't seem worried in the slightest. Division ...

Former Chiba Lotte Marines 23-year-old phenom Rōki Sasaki still is available. He's going to be extremely cheap for years due to his age but he could be a team's No. 1 starter as soon as 2025.

The consensus around baseball is that Roki Sasaki, the flamethrowing Japanese pitcher who is a free agent coveted by the Yankees and able to sign with U.S. teams on a bonus-pool basis (he is only ...

Roki Sasaki’s dazzling debut in the World Baseball Classic came on a day that he doesn’t talk much about. Twelve years ago on March 11, Sasaki’s father and grandparents were killed in the ...