MLB teams have coveted Roki Sasaki since he broke Shohei Ohtani's Japanese high school record by reaching 101 mph with his ...

Roki Sasaki burst onto the scene in Japan as a 19-year-old in 2021, posting a 1.84 ERA over 16 starts. He bounded onto the ...

Per Baseball-Reference, the 23-year-old Sasaki is 6-foot-2, 187 pounds, giving him roughly the same measurements as 2024 All-Star Matt Strahm. For comparison, Strahm's average velocity on his ...

After finishing fourth in the National League Central in 2024, the Cincinnati Reds are primed to make noise in 2025. The Reds ...

Once Juan Soto was off the market, the Roki Sasaki sweepstakes immediately ... Sasaki’s key pitch is his fastball, but his average fastball velocity dropped from 98.8 mph in 2023 to 96.8 mph ...

Signing Roki Sasaki ... on average, and though at just under 97 mph it’s still impressive gas, the pitch does not have elite shape and may be more dependent on that velocity than other fastballs ...

Japanese right-hander Roki Sasaki has announced ... Thanks to triple-digit velocity on his fastball and a deadly splitter, he has managed to post a 2.10 earned run average in 394 2/3 innings ...

Roki Sasaki did what everyone expected him to do ... He also has a 90- to 92-mph slider that’s more of an average pitch, serving as a different look from the split or fastball but without ...

Japanese ace Roki ... Sasaki was always going to end up underpaid relative to his ability. (That is, in fact, why he ranked lower on my free-agent rankings, based largely on expected average ...

There's some skepticism around Roki Sasaki and his ability to transition well to the majors from NPB, where he played for the Chiba Lotte Marines.

Had Sasaki, 23, made a different decision and gone with the Yankees instead of the Dodgers, Cedeno — and some of the other ...