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

Sasaki made the surprising jump from playing high school ball in Japan to attending an American college, forgoing Japan's ...

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.

At 23 years old, Sasaki has many years to show he can develop into one of the top pitchers in the MLB. He joins one of the ...

Brian Cashman was asked why the Dodgers had more success luring Japanese free agents the last two offseasons, and pointed to ...

Sasaki arrives for first day of Dodgers' Spring Training while Ohtani returns to pitching ...

Roki Sasaki's signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the MLB has drawn attention, with a San Diego Padres star expressing ...

As MLB's superteam convenes for the Cactus League, here's the latest on transitions, transactions and the pursuit of a second ...

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The baseline of an ace pitcher was 14 wins with a sub-3.00 ERA and more than 200 strikeouts. The target for a second-tier ace last season was 13 wins with a 3.4 ...

In a way, the financial aspect is even rosier than that (from the Dodgers' perspective), as typically with a prospect of this caliber, a team might feel pressure to sign him to an early extension.