Sasaki, nicknamed in Japan as "the Monster of the Reiwa Era," struck out 11 batters in 7 and ⅔ innings with a 3.52 ERA during the 2023 WBC. In Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, he struck out 129 hitters in 111 regular-season innings for the Marines in the 2024 season.

The Dodgers are the favorites to win the World Series once again in 2025. There's no team with even close to the amount of talent the Dodgers currently have. The Dodgers have added a lot of talent to an already star-studded organization, but everyone from the 2024 roster won't return.

Editor's Note: The story below originally ran in November, after Roki Sasaki's NPB team pledged to post the Japanese star pitcher. Sasaki announced Friday he was signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Death, taxes and the Los Angeles Dodgers winning the free agent sweepstakes of a highly-coveted superstar free agent. This time, they won the pursue of Japanese ace pitcher Rōki Sasaki.

The mighty Dodgers, that Evil Empire on the West Coast, have struck again, signing Japanese phenom Rōki Sasaki.

Just one day after the World Series, the Braves traded Jorge Soler to the Angels. Over the next few ... Teoscar Hernández, OF, Los Angeles Dodgers (32) — re-signed with Dodgers Hernández ...

Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki is soaking up the spotlight in the wake of joining the Dodgers, meeting LeBron James and Rui Hachimura at the Lakers game Tuesday.

It's no wonder, then, why Los Angeles was an obvious fit and why the Dodgers stood out as the favorites to land the latest Japanese sensation. Wolfe advised Sasaki early in the process not to base his decision on how much bonus pool money a team had and to ...

Japanese ace Roki Sasaki made his free-agent decision on Friday, agreeing to join the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers ... who was an international free agent when he signed with the Angels in 2018, got a $2.315 million signing bonus and then ...

The splitter is on the rise in Major League Baseball, and the Dodgers are cornering the market. Splitters were thrown more often in 2024 than in any other season of the pitch tracking era, which goes back to 2008.

Sasaki announced Friday he was signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers. The latest pitching sensation out of Japan is bound for Major League Baseball in 2025. The Chiba Lotte Marines announced that ...

LOS ANGELES ... You think Sasaki is the Kevin Durant of baseball. You wanted him to take on Ohtani and not team up with him. That would be an easier argument to make if the Angels had been ...