Sasaki, Yoshi and Dodgers
The Yokohama DeNA BayStars of Nippon Professonal Baseball have agreed to a deal with right-hander Trevor Bauer, according to multiple reports out of Japan (including from Nikkan Sports).
Sasaki said he prioritized joining a team that would embrace a Japanese player, but explained that there were other reasons that he ultimately chose the Dodgers.
Roki Sasaki's move to MLB from the Lotte Marines at the age of 23 marks a landmark change in the dynamic that exists between Nippon Professional ... countryman Yoshinobu Yamamoto moved to MLB on the biggest contract ever offered to a pro baseball pitcher ...
Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball ... whether the success of Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Hideki Matsui, Yu Darvish ...
The Dodgers bolstered their starting rotation on Wednesday with the addition of right-hander Roki Sasaki, who will join fellow Japanese pitchers Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Los Angeles, the team said in a statement.
The Los Angeles Dodgers aren't ruining baseball following their latest Roki Sasaki signing — they're just better at it than everyone else in MLB.
Knowing that the 2025 rotation of Shohei Ohtani, Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto is adding someone who had a 2.10 career ERA in Nippon Professional Baseball certainly feels like ...
Sasaki dominated Nippon Professional Baseball ... have signed a free agent pitcher from Japan, as they handed Yoshinobu Yamamoto the largest guaranteed contract for a pitcher in MLB history ...
Sasaki joins the World Series champions after spending the last four seasons with the Chiba Lotte Marines of the Nippon Professional Baseball league ... NL MVP Ohtani and Yamamoto, who he called ...
Last year, righthander Yoshinobu Yamamoto signed with the Dodgers as one of the best pitchers to come over from Nippon Pro Baseball (NPB ... who meets the “foreign professional” standard ...
a Japanese professional baseball team, by using the posting system. He is set to become a Dodgers teammate with Japanese stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The three played together in ...