Another premier free agent has chosen to land with the Los Angeles Dodgers this offseason, as high-end closer Tanner Scott has agreed to a four-year, $72-million deal. This comes after the Chicago Cubs had reportedly made a "substantial" multi-year offer.
The 23-year-old is expected to be an MLB ace -- eventually. Here's what insiders say about Sasaki in 2025 and beyond.
Prized Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki says in an Instagram post he intends to sign with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
Los Angeles Dodgers this MLB season. Yes, if you slap with The Boys in Blue, you have every right to hop aboard the us vs. them train for this year. Otherwise, you are just rooting for the baseball version of the Kansas City Chiefs.
In a way, the financial aspect is even rosier than that (from the Dodgers' perspective), as typically with a prospect of this caliber, a team might feel pressure to sign him to an early extension. With Sasaki, there's no such pressure: Any talk of an extension now would be viewed as circumventing the transfer rules. It's almost too good to be true.
The Rangers President of Baseball Operations said the organization put its ‘best foot forward’ in its pitch to the Japanese right-hander.
Roki Sasaki, the prized 23-year-old Japanese right-hander, has signed with the world champion Los Angeles Dodgers, he announced Friday.
The expectation this winter was that the Los Angeles Dodgers were going to land international free agent Roki Sasaki. While the Dodgers were named finalists, th
Los Angeles is uniting through it's local sports teams as the Los Angeles Dodgers and 11 other teams in Southern California have pledged more than $8 million fo
That being said, it's unclear where he will fit in the Dodgers' star-studded rotation.
A former MLB exec is confident teams like the New York Yankees or Mets will push for an investigation of how the Dodgers signed Roki Sasaki.