Sacramento A's of Las Vegas...was funny. On the business-side, pitchers rarely receive the same amount of endorsements or attention as batters in Japan, since starting pitchers only appear once a week. Ohtani is a very rare case as he was a 2-way player, famous nationwide since high school, and was earning nearly JPY5bn in endorsements, advertisements, and TV appearances when he was 23 year old before moving to the Angels. Sasaki will be earning league minimum for the first 3 seasons, but I don't know how much he will cost in the last 3 years until free agency. If I remember correctly, Ohtani was receiving US$ 20 to 30mn from the Angels (in addition to US$ 60mn in endorsements) in the final year with the Angels. Sasaki is one of the few Japanese pitchers who is able to pitch above 160km/h. He is a generational talent for sure. And his agent is the same as Kohdai Senga (Mets), Yoshinobu Yamamoto (Dodgers), Seiya Suzuki (Cubs), and Yu Darvish (Rangers, Dodgers, Cubs, and Padres). Which happens to be 5 out of the 7 teams he reportedly invited to meetings. Put differently, Sasaki is coming over early because he wants to use first few seasons to adjust to American baseball, lifestyle, culture, cuisine, etc. And he is looking for a stable team that can help his development. Realistically, there are only handful of teams that can offer what Sasaki is looking for.
Sure. And again, I'm not saying Sasaki will have anywhere near the commercial effect that Ohtani has had. But a 23-year-old flamethrower who hasn't hit his prime coming over to MLB is definitely going to catch eyes. Who knows? I could see Sasaki having a Hideki Matsui-like effect where the market he goes to falls in love with him. New York basically knows Matsui as 'Godzilla', and he made a lot of money off of it. And yes, Ohtani made $30 million in his last year with the Angels to avoid arbitration (honestly he should have been paid more 🤣). And I couldn't help the A's comment lol. It was too good not to put in 👍
What’s left out of this video is when Roki was around 10 years old, he lost his father, grandparents and family home to a tsunami. He grew up in a homeless shelter for a portion of his childhood because of it. He’s been VERY adamant about going to the MLB as soon as possible and even made that clear with his NPB club when he signed with them. He was a highly touted talent out of high school and been open about his childhood dreams of playing in the MLB since those high school days. Roki wants to chase that dream at the expense of hundreds of millions of dollars, because to him tomorrow isn’t promised.
Japanese pitcher that throws a splitter is all I needed to hear. Go ahead and give him the Cy Young
I’ll pin this 👍
sasaki is heavy duty. he will dominate MLB.
Great video, subbed
Awesome, thank you!
彼は東日本大震災で親を亡くし、
大谷翔平よりだいぶ苦労している点。
朗らかな希望という名前。
MLBやDOGERSも大人の態度で
佐々木朗希の要求を飲んでやって
気長に精神的成長も含めて育んでやっても良い様な気もするがなぁ！
Sacramento A's of Las Vegas...was funny. On the business-side, pitchers rarely receive the same amount of endorsements or attention as batters in Japan, since starting pitchers only appear once a week.
Ohtani is a very rare case as he was a 2-way player, famous nationwide since high school, and was earning nearly JPY5bn in endorsements, advertisements, and TV appearances when he was 23 year old before moving to the Angels.
Sasaki will be earning league minimum for the first 3 seasons, but I don't know how much he will cost in the last 3 years until free agency. If I remember correctly, Ohtani was receiving US$ 20 to 30mn from the Angels (in addition to US$ 60mn in endorsements) in the final year with the Angels.
Sasaki is one of the few Japanese pitchers who is able to pitch above 160km/h. He is a generational talent for sure. And his agent is the same as Kohdai Senga (Mets), Yoshinobu Yamamoto (Dodgers), Seiya Suzuki (Cubs), and Yu Darvish (Rangers, Dodgers, Cubs, and Padres). Which happens to be 5 out of the 7 teams he reportedly invited to meetings.
Put differently, Sasaki is coming over early because he wants to use first few seasons to adjust to American baseball, lifestyle, culture, cuisine, etc. And he is looking for a stable team that can help his development. Realistically, there are only handful of teams that can offer what Sasaki is looking for.
Sure. And again, I'm not saying Sasaki will have anywhere near the commercial effect that Ohtani has had. But a 23-year-old flamethrower who hasn't hit his prime coming over to MLB is definitely going to catch eyes. Who knows? I could see Sasaki having a Hideki Matsui-like effect where the market he goes to falls in love with him. New York basically knows Matsui as 'Godzilla', and he made a lot of money off of it.
And yes, Ohtani made $30 million in his last year with the Angels to avoid arbitration (honestly he should have been paid more 🤣).
And I couldn't help the A's comment lol. It was too good not to put in 👍
its about the game, not the money for these Japanese boys.
Sasaki should wait to get paid. No rush to come for peanuts. Think Soto!!!
If he doesn't sign by January 23rd, he'll go back to his NPB team
What’s left out of this video is when Roki was around 10 years old, he lost his father, grandparents and family home to a tsunami. He grew up in a homeless shelter for a portion of his childhood because of it. He’s been VERY adamant about going to the MLB as soon as possible and even made that clear with his NPB club when he signed with them. He was a highly touted talent out of high school and been open about his childhood dreams of playing in the MLB since those high school days. Roki wants to chase that dream at the expense of hundreds of millions of dollars, because to him tomorrow isn’t promised.
If I was Roki I would want to pitch against Ohtani.
I am the 69th sud
Nice 😂
Welcome to the channel 🤣
Kazuhiro Sasaki and Hiroki Kuroda says hi.
With the way Cleveland develops pitchers, maaaaybe he should consider them (or they should consider spending a little money)
Cleveland could easily get him, I agree
He’s coming to the NL West
松川虎生もセットでとって
オースティンバーンズに育てさせると良い！
バーンズは名監督に成長し
松川は名捕手に成長する可能性があるので
佐々木朗希の保険にもなるよなぁ！
松川虎生は佐々木朗希より若いのに賢いからなぁ！
多分そうでしょう。でもドジャースはすでにウィル・スミスを長期契約で獲得していますし、彼らの一番の有望株であるダルトン・ラッシングも捕手です。でも面白いコンセプトですね。コメントありがとうございます！
I will hold you to that when Roki Joins the team Thanos. 🙄
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