The spotlight will be on slugger Shohei Ohtani this week when the superstar returns to Japan and leads the defending World ...

The Roki Sasaki splitter is here, and it might be even nastier than we thought. Sasaki was all-around electric in his Dodgers ...

TOKYO — The spotlight will be on slugger Shohei Ohtani when the superstar returns to Japan and leads the defending World ...

Newest Dodgers star Roki Sasaki threw three scoreless innings in his spring training debut Tuesday night, striking out five ...

Last season, 204 pitchers averaged at least 94 mph on at least 200 four-seamers. Sasaki’s fastball would rank last in spin rate. (MLB baseballs are bigger and less tacky than NPB baseballs, allowing ...

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Roki Sasaki rolled 99-mph fastballs off his fingers, while mixing in splitters and sliders to keep Cincinnati Reds batters baffled in his Los Angeles Dodgers spring training debut in Phoenix.

Four months after I gave a scouting report culled with the help of executives and scouts on what to expect from Roki Sasaki—one of ... that of the Seattle Mariners ace righthander.

More than the fastball that sat at 98 mph or the three shutout innings, the story of Roki Sasaki's debut as ... four years with the Chiba Lotte Mariners, Sasaki reinforced why Los Angeles is ...

PHOENIX — As free-agent acquisitions go, Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki generated similar hype ... spring debut in an 11-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners, offering a first glimpse at the wicked ...

As free-agent acquisitions go, Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki generated similar hype upon joining the ... Snell pitched a scoreless inning in his spring debut in an 11-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners, ...