As Rintaro Sasaki begins his college baseball career at Stanford with all of Japan watching, he knows there will be growing ...

Rintaro Sasaki is a teenage phenomenon who aspires to play Major League Baseball. He is a trailblazer embarking upon an unconventional path for a Japanese ball player.

Inside the Dodgers’ seven-year pursuit of Rōki Sasaki, their foothold in Japan and the battle for MLB's next potential pitching star.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki are the likely starting pitchers for the Los Angeles Dodgers when they face the Chicago ...

The Dodgers invested in another impact arm with an elite ceiling from Japan. He looks poises to make LA's starting rotation ...

Roki Sasaki impresses fellow Los Angeles Dodgers teammates with his splitter, leaving them speechless in the process.

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Roki Sasaki was warming up for his bullpen on a cool, breezy Wednesday morning at Camelback Ranch, when the right-hander let loose a fastball that sailed past catcher ...

With the upcoming Tokyo Series set to feature a pair of storied Major League franchises with plenty of talent from Japan, the ...

Roki Sasaki, the 23-year-old Japanese pitching sensation, had his first official bullpen session with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday.

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 ...

Sasaki, of course, will deal with other challenges coming from Japan – a new ball, new city, new culture and more. But he can lean on his fellow countrymen, Ohtani and Yamamoto. He also can ...

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 ...