The 23-year-old joined Kodai Senga and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in the train of top Japanese right-handed starting pitchers that have crossed over from the NPB to the MLB over the past few years.

The lineup features two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell, three-time NPB Pacific League MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto, three-time MLB MVP Shohei Ohtani — and possibly NPB ace Roki Sasaki.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have been on an unprecedented stretch that dates back to last offseason when they signed Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto ... from the NPB: “I was told in the last ...

The Dodgers cemented their status as the preferred MLB destination for NPB stars and transformed their rotation into a Mount Rushmore of Japanese pitching luminaries by winning the Rōki Sasaki ...

Among them are a potential new pitching schedule and routine, and slightly different baseball from the one used in NPB. Mookie Betts believes the presence of Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto ...

There's not much question that while Major League Baseball remains the most prestigious and competitive league in the world, ...

Roki Sasaki is here. Munetaka Murakami could be next. From Shohei Ohtani to Yoshinobu Yamamoto to Sasaki, there's been a wave ...

Roki Sasaki makes first comments as a Dodger after opting to team up with compatriots Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in LA.

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 world stage when he joined a star-studded Japanese rotation that included ...