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Insider Compares Roki Sasaki To Other Top Japanese Pitchers

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The Los Angeles Dodgers will attempt to defend their World Series title in 2025 after defeating the New York Yankees to win the championship last season.

While the Dodgers’ roster was already one of the best in the league, they added even more talent this offseason.

The Dodgers acquired three notable pitchers: starter Blake Snell from the San Francisco Giants, reliever Tanner Scott from the San Diego Padres, and starter Roki Sasaki, who is coming over to MLB from Japan.

MLB insider Dylan Hernandez recently compared Sasaki to other top Japanese pitchers.

“In terms of just the raw materials, I do think he has more maybe than any other Japanese pitcher before him,” Hernandez said, via Foul Territory.

The other Japanese pitchers that Hernandez discusses are Yu Darvish of the Padres and Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers.

Sasaki will join Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in a Dodgers rotation that is loaded with talent.

In 2024, Sasaki appeared in 18 games and was 10-5 with a 2.35 ERA and 129 strikeouts in 111.0 innings pitched.

Hernandez said he believes Sasaki has the stuff to be one of the best pitchers to ever come from Japan, but his durability will be a big question mark.

It will be interesting to see how the Dodgers use Sasaki as he has never thrown more than 130 innings in a season.

The post Insider Compares Roki Sasaki To Other Top Japanese Pitchers appeared first on The Cold Wire.

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