Next week, the Major League Baseball season kicks off with the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers doing battle in the two-game 'Tokyo Series.' The games will ...

Could Roki Sasaki be the next great Japanese player in the Majors ... Kazuo Matsui, SS/2B, 2004-10 Kaz Matsui (no relation to Hideki) hit .291 over nine seasons with the Seibu Lions, amassing more ...

This week wasn’t about the defending World Series champions visiting Japan, or Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s transformation, or even Roki Sasaki’s major league debut. March 19, 2025 There also was ...

Roki Sasaki brought the heat. He just didn’t have the command. The 23-year-old Japanese phenom and newest Dodgers star hit 101 mph but lasted just three innings in his MLB debut Wednesday in a 6 ...

In seven innings, he is yet to allow a run, has seven strikeouts, and has posted a 0.86 WHIP. Sasaki’s splitter is already getting noticed as talked about as one of the better pitches in the MLB.

TOKYO — They call him the “Monster of the Reiwa Era” here in his native Japan, but years ago this was a scene that Roki Sasaki could not have ever envisioned. Not after the tragedy that ...

Los Angeles Dodgers. Roki Sasaki feels the pressure with the Dodgers ahead of his first start Wednesday against the Cubs Los Angeles Dodgers. Dodgers' star Freeman scratched from lineup before ...

GLENDALE, Ariz. -- More than the fastball that sat at 98 mph or the three shutout innings, the story of Roki Sasaki's debut as a Los Angeles Dodger on Tuesday night was best told through the words ...

Roki Sasaki is just the latest Japanese free-agent signing that had help from an outside firm to pick the Los Angeles Dodgers. Ross Atkins of the Blue Jays gets a pass. Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher ...