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.

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

Rintaro Sasaki zooms up to the ballpark on an electric bike with a brown bag of food in hand, ready to grab a quick bite of ...

Japanese pitchers Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki are expected to start for the Los Angeles Dodgers in season openers at ...

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

With MLB Spring training games only a week away, all eyes will be on Roki Sasaki's first outing and how he looks facing MLB players for the first time in a Dodg ...

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

Los Angeles Dodgers manager indicated that Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaski will start the two games against the Chicago Cubs in Japan.

Even then, Sasaki's size, flexibility, velocity and ability to spin a breaking ball stood out. Deeble had seen plenty of talent from the area before. He was heavily involved in scouting Ohtani and ...

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 ...