Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Roki Sasaki pitched in a simulated game on Tuesday and his fastball clocked in at ...

Pitchers and catchers have started to report around Major League Baseball and the Los Angeles Dodgers' quest for back-to-back ...

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

With spring training underway, Dodgers star Mookie Betts is bought in on new pitcher Roki Sasaki, saying he is as advertised.

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Sasaki came to the Dodgers with four years of experience in Japan. He went 30-15 with a 2.02 ERA, 0.883 WHIP, and 524 strikeouts over 414.2 innings. In his time with Nippon Professional Baseball ...

Stanford star freshman Rintaro Suzuki and the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani both attended the same high school in Japan, where ...

Sasaki was made available to MLB teams for a 45-day window by the Chiba Lotte Marines of Japan’s Pacific League under the posting agreement between Nippon Professional Baseball and MLB.

Nippon Professional Baseball must quickly adapt as it will continue to face challenges from the likes of Shotaro Morii, Rintaro Sasaki and others who dream of wearing major league uniforms ...

Sasaki, who has been one of the most intriguing ... He was the only pitcher in baseball to have a WHIP under 1.0 and strikeout rate above 33% during this span (minimum 10 starts), and he also ...

They signed Blake Snell and Japanese phenom Rōki Sasaki ... Sasaki's expectations are higher than Snell's. Sasaki pitched in Nippon Professional Baseball for four seasons before making the ...