After their home was swept away, Sasaki’s widowed mother, Yoko, and her three sons — Ryuki, Roki and Reiki — stayed temporarily at a nursing home in Rikuzentakata before moving to Ofunato, a ...

Never mind him not being ready to lead the rotation of another team and challenge Shohei Ohtani. Roki Sasaki doesn’t look ready to pitch in the major leagues.

Roki Sasaki is younger, bigger and throws harder than Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Rowan Kavner looks at what the Dodgers are getting with their newest Japanese pitching phenom.

Roki Sasaki has struggled to consistently throw the ball hard, averaging just 96 mph with his four-seamer this season while sometimes dropping down to the 92-93 mph range. News.

4. Sasaki will wear No. 11. Although Sasaki previously wore No. 14 during international play and No. 17 as a member of Nippon Professional Baseball's Chiba Lotte Marines, it was an open question ...

Sasaki didn’t want to wait, though, for a chance at playing in MLB. “Roki is by no means a finished product,” Wolfe said. “He knows it, and the teams know it.

The reason for Sasaki's unbelievable movement is mostly the lack of spin. He averaged a comically slow 518 rpm on the splitter in his previous start and then 575 on Tuesday.

Sasaki's fastball sat 96.1 mph Saturday, down a bit from the 100 mph gas he pumped during the Tokyo Series earlier this month. That is understandable though.

While many people are just going to assume that Sasaki will sign with the Dodgers, there are a lot of moving pieces here due to Sasaki’s age and the time of year that he becomes a free agent. This ...

Roki Sasaki has not informed clubs which team he will choose, but the second order effects of his impending signing have begun. In November, we wrote about how Sasaki being posted could create ...

DETROIT — Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki was in Toronto meeting with the Blue Jays recently, and there’s no indication that he stopped in for a visit to Detroit on his way back to the West Coast.