Roki Sasaki burst onto the scene in Japan as a 19-year-old in 2021, posting a 1.84 ERA over 16 starts. He bounded onto the ...

"As a superstar that Roki is, he took his time to come to the bus, meet Escala, send us a bunch of candy and sign a ball for Willie. It was a huge sign of respect." Two years later, Sasaki is on ...

They were there to watch Sasaki take the ball in Tokyo, a six-hour drive south, to pitch for Samurai Japan in a World Baseball Classic game against the Czech Republic. “Watching him pitch ...

Sasaki also doesn’t spin the ball well. His spin rates are below the MLB median across the board, so his breaking balls have been inferior to his split-finger for most of his career. When we saw ...

Padres’ Yu Darvish respects Roki Sasaki’s Dodgers choice. Per Jeff Sanders of The San Diego Tribune, Darvish has no hard ...

Last year, the right-hander we had at the top of this always-deep Top 10 prospects list went on to win the National League ...

One high-ranking evaluator pointed to Paul Skenes as an example of pitchers being able to overcome a dead-zone fastball if they throw the ball hard enough -- something that has worked in Sasaki's ...

Sasaki has been dominant in his Japanese career ... all teams utilize six-man rotations with one off day each week, so starters take the ball once per week and often average more innings per ...

As the MLB offseason continues, the newest member of the Dodgers, Roki Sasaki, comes in at number 1 on the ESPN top 100 ...

Hunter Greene had a similar combination of arm speed and hype at the same age, along with some questions on his fastball shape and breaking ball quality. Obviously, Sasaki's standout splitter has ...