Dodgers General Manager Andrew Friedman highlighted Shohei Ohtani's rules advantage to help convince Roki Sasaki to sign in LA.

Shohei Ohtani reportedly played a large role in starting pitcher Rōki Sasaki signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Ohtani was part of a contingent of Dodgers players present at the team's ...

Cy Young Awards were announced in November, and Chris Sale and Tarik Skubal are great. But the next Cy Young Award winner ...

Editor's Note: The story below originally ran in November, after Roki Sasaki's NPB team pledged ... bonus pool money. Think more Shohei Ohtani, who was under the same limitations when he signed ...

Similar to how last winter was defined by the Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes ... including Japanese pitcher Rōki Sasaki and slugging first baseman Pete Alonso. And as Soto himself knows, after ...

Starting pitcher Rōki Sasaki announced his intention to sign ... as he was teammates with Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the Team Japan roster that won the 2023 World Baseball Classic ...

The Dodgers cemented their status as the preferred MLB destination for NPB stars and transformed their rotation into a Mount Rushmore of Japanese pitching luminaries by winning the Rōki Sasaki ...

For reference, the highest velocity Ohtani has reached in MLB is 101.4. In a WBC warmup game, Rōki Sasaki threw this pitch at 102.5 MPH! He and Shohei Ohtani are the only two Japanese ...

Rōki Sasaki, the most talented young pitcher ... This is a star-studded Dodgers rotation that features Blake Snell, Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow, Sasaski, Clayton Kershaw ...

And in following the path paved by Shohei Ohtani in 2018, Sasaki’s acquisition cost would be limited to teams’ international signing pool – and then have his salary controlled by the club ...