Sasaki has been in Los Angeles for the majority of his stay stateside, but the Dodgers’ meeting would give them something not afforded at the Wasserman office meetings (but permitted in his city ...

Roki Sasaki has struggled to consistently throw the ball hard, averaging just 96 mph with his four-seamer this season while sometimes dropping down to the 92-93 mph range.

He walked four. He was charged with three hits and two runs. Of 61 pitches, only 32 were strikes. Sasaki was in obvious shock as he departed from the mound without handing the baseball to Roberts.

That he can make pitches." Sasaki pairs his high-octane fastball with an outlier splitter. It's an outlier because the pitch averages a spin rate right around 500 rpm, which is exceptionally low.

Sasaki didn’t want to wait, though, for a chance at playing in MLB. “Roki is by no means a finished product,” Wolfe said. “He knows it, and the teams know it. He’s incredibly talented.

Sasaki later admitted the suggestion was a bit more tongue-in-cheek, but the pitcher had liked that the team was willing to listen to his input and that it “was definitely a factor” in him ...

Probably not how Dodgers fans envisioned Sasaki's opening moments in MLB. This is one pitch and one at-bat, of course, so we can hardly take it as gospel. In fact, Sasaki recovered nicely ...

Although Sasaki previously wore No. 14 during international play and No. 17 as a member of Nippon Professional Baseball's Chiba Lotte Marines, it was an open question as to what number he would ...