I hope Sasaki finds the right team that can support his development and pitching career. Sasaki is coming over early like Ohtani because he knows he will need a few seasons to gradually adjust to American baseball, culture, lifestyle, etc.
@@yo2trader539 Roki is 23 years old and still hasn’t learned an offspeed pitch. Most pitchers in the USA learned that by the age of 18. There is nothing an MLB team can teach him that a Japanese team couldn’t in terms of developing pitches. The sequencing of how to use those pitches is what the MLB can help him with. But he hasn’t even developed in offspeed pitch yet. He truly isnt ready and I don’t know why he decided to come before learning an offspeed pitch
@@johndurrer7869 He has a 2 pitch mix, a 100 mph fastball and a 90 mph splitter. Splitters are a type of change up, an off speed pitch. Those fast balls looked like sinkers to me with their arm side movement, and his splitters had glove side movement and good drop. Sasaki will be battered by right handed power hitters in the Majors because of his pitches. In the NPB the predominant swing is flat making his splitters strike out pitches, in the MLB there are a lot of golf swings from power hitters that will wreck those splitters. If Saskai learns a sweeper he'll be an Ace, without that he'll be back in Japan in 3 years.
@ It’s only a 10 mph difference. That is not gonna keep MLB hitters off balance. For example there is 21 MPH difference between Ohtani’s fastest and slowest pitch. Same with Darvish. Yamamoto has a 17 mph gap. 10 MPH just isnt typical.
@@johndurrer7869 Mason Miller has his (on average for all p[itches) 100 mph 4 seam, 88 mph slider, 93 mph change up, and 98 mph sinker. The biggest difference between pitch speed is 12 mph, the real difference is the way the ball breaks. A 5 mph difference between pitches is enough to throw the timing off to get bad contact or even no contact, by slowing down or speeding up the hitter. Miller keeps hitters off balance not just with speed, but also break, and sequencing. Sasaki doesn't have enough pitches in his arsenal to make the sequencing work for him, yet.
@ Mason Miller is a closer that averages 102 MPH (Roki averages 97), closers only need a couple pitches because they only face hitters once. I think Roki will do ok his first time through the order. Its after that when he will struggle mightly .
I want him to silence those who doubt or even degrade his worth by calling his legitimate request selfish, or who criticized him as flawed for being carefully managed by his coaches and pitching only short innings. He is a valuable and well-trained talent who has been nurtured for further development to become a perfect pitcher, and MLB is undoubtedly the better stage for him to showcase his true potential. They’ll regret ever underestimating or misjudging him. Go and shine, rookie Roki!
I want Sasaki Roki to do his best. Between Sasaki and Ohtani, Sasaki has more potential as a pitcher. But, the pitching rotation is shorter and there are more games in MLB than in Japanese professional baseball. If he doesn't build up more muscle, he'll get injured in no time. Ohtani was injured a lot during the first half of his time with the Angels, and he grew about two sizes bigger. Sasaki is too thin.
I'm sure he will sign with the Dodgers, all the best players do. He's probably LONG BEEN picked the Dodgers as his destination, but draw it out to hype up fans to bring more interest/money by making fans believe their team even began to have a chance. People will say "oh the Dodgers, spend money your team could spend to, stop hating." While that's partially true, it's just not reality. No other team could even begin to sign all the best players in the game on mostly deffered money. None of these star players would do that with no other team. No other team (besides the Mets) has unlimited funds like the Dodgers do. No other team has quite the marketability the Dodgers do, and no other team could allow a player to make the most like the Dodgers can. No other team has more chance to get players rings like the Dodgers can and no other team has just about all the best players like the Dodgers do. They quite literally have the upper advantage on every team. That's not hating. That's facts 💯 ESPECIALLY the lower market teams won't even bother making an offer because they know they stand ZERO chance of landing the biggest of names. So other teams would spend (hence the Blue Jays), but if the players refuse to sign with them, it amounts to nothing. The Dodgers are quite literally the ruin of the league and the evil villain everyone besides Dodgers fans despise.
Sasaki to Dodgers. It would be the biggest mistake going to any other teams. Just look at Ohtani when he played for the Angels...guess what happen?? He wasted his talent on that crappy team for years. People forget that baseball is a team sport you idiots; IT'S NOT BASKETBALL; so it makes sense for Sasaki to join the Dodgers and play along side with his fellow countrymen/teammates Ohtani & Yamamoto, and win the World Series together. That's how it should be done!
Thanks to the Dodgers scouting as they knew him when he was in high school. Other mlb teams wants don’t research like the Dodgers do and they want food on the table when it was prepared by the Dodgers chef. Every team can cry when he becomes a Dodger and win a chip in his rookie season.
@@jykim3604Yeah and the dodgers are switching to a 6 man rotation , in Japan the pitchers are already used to a 6 man rotation. And they didn't resign Walker .
We as baseball fans just see pitchers in a different light now. It’s unfortunate but a reality, they are a walking arm blowout. We know it’s probably going to happen and cost them 18 months and maybe never again be the same guy.
No serious free agent will ever go to Tamba Bay. The rest of the MLB commends TB's farm system though. They're churning out a lot of talent for the rest of baseball.
As fellow Japanese players who supported the dynasty *Ohtani* built with the Dodgers as a once-in-a-century two-way star, *Yamamoto* and *Sasaki* will surely leave their mark on MLB history.🎌👏
Why?!? So the fanatics can cuss him out, flip him off, and wish sweet nothings on him, like they did at Ohtani?!? Stop it. He would look ridiculous in prison stripes.
@@Ericandroy Sasaki is better off with the Dodgers as they did the scouting and recognized his talent when he was in high school. Yanks wants to steal the talent from the Dodgers.
Roki Sasaki is an overrated pitcher. He has never even been able to defend a six-day middle-of-the-rotation starting rotation. The windy conditions at Chiba Lotte's home ballpark made it easier for his forkball to drop sharply, and that's how he achieved a perfect game. There is a big gap between Roki Sasaki's performance at his home ballpark and the visitor's ballpark. And Roki Sasaki, ignorant of non-baseball contracts, has been duped by his cronies in the advertising industry into trying to move to MLB on a minor league contract with unfavorable terms at the age of 23. Incidentally, there are other young NPB pitchers who are better than him. But many of them are trying to delay their MLB careers until they are 25 or older, because by going to MLB at age 25 or older, they can also sign long-term major league contracts.
Yakyu Cosmopolitan rated him number 3 this year after Hiroya Miyagi and Hiroto Takahashi, and that's with his missing time due to injury. As for other young pitchers, we shall see as we're beginning to see more injuries in NPB as well. His scouting reports are better than any other pitchers coming over, and Lance Brozdowski rated his chance of turning into a reliever (if he fails to make it as a starter) only around 10%, and that's the worst case scenario. As for that attack article that insinuated that he didn't know about the 25-year rule, it's frankly insulting as it all but called him stupid. You really think someone who's been mulling the move for almost two years didn't consult with his agent, attorney, and others? I'd rather listen to experts who are bullish on his chances of being a top pitcher here. He just needs to stay healthy, which could be more possible given all the variables, starting with the climate (Korea and Japan were notoriouisly hot this summer and likely to get hotter in the coming years).
He did this to go to the dodgers to play with ohtani and yamamoto, win a ws championship, and grow in his skills with them. If he went to the mlb 2 years later and demanded a huge payout contract, he wouldnt be able to do it with the Dodgers.
Roki Sasaki plays for a professional baseball team in Japan owned by a Korean company and hangs around with Korean advertising agencies.So maybe Sasaki Roki is making arrogant demands that are beyond his means?
I hope Sasaki finds the right team that can support his development and pitching career. Sasaki is coming over early like Ohtani because he knows he will need a few seasons to gradually adjust to American baseball, culture, lifestyle, etc.
@@yo2trader539 Roki is 23 years old and still hasn’t learned an offspeed pitch. Most pitchers in the USA learned that by the age of 18. There is nothing an MLB team can teach him that a Japanese team couldn’t in terms of developing pitches. The sequencing of how to use those pitches is what the MLB can help him with. But he hasn’t even developed in offspeed pitch yet. He truly isnt ready and I don’t know why he decided to come before learning an offspeed pitch
@@johndurrer7869 He has a 2 pitch mix, a 100 mph fastball and a 90 mph splitter. Splitters are a type of change up, an off speed pitch. Those fast balls looked like sinkers to me with their arm side movement, and his splitters had glove side movement and good drop. Sasaki will be battered by right handed power hitters in the Majors because of his pitches. In the NPB the predominant swing is flat making his splitters strike out pitches, in the MLB there are a lot of golf swings from power hitters that will wreck those splitters. If Saskai learns a sweeper he'll be an Ace, without that he'll be back in Japan in 3 years.
@ It’s only a 10 mph difference. That is not gonna keep MLB hitters off balance. For example there is 21 MPH difference between Ohtani’s fastest and slowest pitch. Same with Darvish. Yamamoto has a 17 mph gap. 10 MPH just isnt typical.
@@johndurrer7869 Mason Miller has his (on average for all p[itches) 100 mph 4 seam, 88 mph slider, 93 mph change up, and 98 mph sinker. The biggest difference between pitch speed is 12 mph, the real difference is the way the ball breaks.
A 5 mph difference between pitches is enough to throw the timing off to get bad contact or even no contact, by slowing down or speeding up the hitter.
Miller keeps hitters off balance not just with speed, but also break, and sequencing. Sasaki doesn't have enough pitches in his arsenal to make the sequencing work for him, yet.
@ Mason Miller is a closer that averages 102 MPH (Roki averages 97), closers only need a couple pitches because they only face hitters once. I think Roki will do ok his first time through the order. Its after that when he will struggle mightly .
His slider's getting better and better.
健康を維持するのが第一目標
He has some unhittable pitches including the splitter, I think he will be the next Paul Skens
Skenes is much better than Sasaki. I'd give up Yamamoto and Sasaki to get Skenes that's how better Skenes is IMO.
@rainbowhouse3427 no?
Thats probably the most ridiculous thing ive ever heard.... both of them??@rainbowhouse3427
Greatest Dodgers pitcher ever.
Yooo don’t make Yama cry
At first, I read it: "BREAKING: Roki Sasaki signs with the Dodgers"
The future is now ;)
佐々木朗希はやってくれると信じています
I wish you had come Phillies..
Mick AbeI and Roki Sasaki 23 years old that's brilliant pitches.
As a Marines and Cubs fan, him signing with the Cubs would be the only way to cure my heartbreak
0:30 These fastballs look like screwballs.
H j
Recently, Japanese players have tended to avoid East Coast teams (though Sugano chose the Orioles).
Based Sugano, hopefully more Japanese follow suit
@@leosorghum6867freaking cold in the east
@@leosorghum6867 lmao. That's only because nobody else wanted to sign him because of his age.
Koudai Senga is also on an East Coast team.
Don't disrespect my glorious king Kenta Maeda
I want him to silence those who doubt or even degrade his worth by calling his legitimate request selfish, or who criticized him as flawed for being carefully managed by his coaches and pitching only short innings. He is a valuable and well-trained talent who has been nurtured for further development to become a perfect pitcher, and MLB is undoubtedly the better stage for him to showcase his true potential. They’ll regret ever underestimating or misjudging him. Go and shine, rookie Roki!
Just NO Angels Roki
Yes.
Yankees need him. They'll develop him well.
can’t wait for him to be a dodger
PLEASE BE A BRAVE!
@Roki Sasaki
Welcome to Chicago
Welcome to Dodgers, SASAKI....
He is Japanese Jacob Degrom
Looks like JR Richards in his prime.
Dodger Blue!!!
THE DODGERS ARE WAITING
CHAVEZ RAVINE IS WATCHING👀
I want Sasaki Roki to do his best.
Between Sasaki and Ohtani, Sasaki has more potential as a pitcher.
But, the pitching rotation is shorter and there are more games in MLB than in Japanese professional baseball. If he doesn't build up more muscle, he'll get injured in no time.
Ohtani was injured a lot during the first half of his time with the Angels, and he grew about two sizes bigger.
Sasaki is too thin.
Come to Dodgers!! 💪
Make a trio of Samurai SP
A World Series dynasty is here.
Japan loves Dodgers 💙🤍 ⚾💯
Dodgers love Japan 💙🤍
This whole thing, the Dodgers and the love we are receiving from Japan, makes me want to visit Japan. When I do, Ill be wearing my Dodger jersey
Which team do you plan to become Mike the Third on?
meet matt blake
Sign him to a team already! DAMN! what yall waiting for?
Waiting for Sasaki
He can't sign until January 15, so thats what we are all waiting for
Ive seen worst MLB pitchers' habits than this. If he can throw and has a high strikeout % then hes the man.
I'm sure he will sign with the Dodgers, all the best players do. He's probably LONG BEEN picked the Dodgers as his destination, but draw it out to hype up fans to bring more interest/money by making fans believe their team even began to have a chance. People will say "oh the Dodgers, spend money your team could spend to, stop hating." While that's partially true, it's just not reality. No other team could even begin to sign all the best players in the game on mostly deffered money. None of these star players would do that with no other team. No other team (besides the Mets) has unlimited funds like the Dodgers do. No other team has quite the marketability the Dodgers do, and no other team could allow a player to make the most like the Dodgers can. No other team has more chance to get players rings like the Dodgers can and no other team has just about all the best players like the Dodgers do. They quite literally have the upper advantage on every team. That's not hating. That's facts 💯 ESPECIALLY the lower market teams won't even bother making an offer because they know they stand ZERO chance of landing the biggest of names. So other teams would spend (hence the Blue Jays), but if the players refuse to sign with them, it amounts to nothing. The Dodgers are quite literally the ruin of the league and the evil villain everyone besides Dodgers fans despise.
Sasaki to Dodgers. It would be the biggest mistake going to any other teams. Just look at Ohtani when he played for the Angels...guess what happen?? He wasted his talent on that crappy team for years. People forget that baseball is a team sport you idiots; IT'S NOT BASKETBALL; so it makes sense for Sasaki to join the Dodgers and play along side with his fellow countrymen/teammates Ohtani & Yamamoto, and win the World Series together. That's how it should be done!
@@ralki15 No.
Is there a spot for him though? The rotation looks overfull now.
Thanks to the Dodgers scouting as they knew him when he was in high school. Other mlb teams wants don’t research like the Dodgers do and they want food on the table when it was prepared by the Dodgers chef. Every team can cry when he becomes a Dodger and win a chip in his rookie season.
@@jykim3604Yeah and the dodgers are switching to a 6 man rotation , in Japan the pitchers are already used to a 6 man rotation. And they didn't resign Walker .
Because another few hundred million dollars is nothing
Os gonna get him you heard it here first.
😂😂
future met great
another clay expert
We as baseball fans just see pitchers in a different light now. It’s unfortunate but a reality, they are a walking arm blowout. We know it’s probably going to happen and cost them 18 months and maybe never again be the same guy.
I had a vivid dream of him going to the padres on January 13th
Ur waking up to a nightmare 😂😂😂
Waste of talent if he goes to anyone besides Dodgers. The Dodgers have the greatest pitching coaches
Tampa bay rays 🙌
Dodgers got your former aces 😂
No serious free agent will ever go to Tamba Bay. The rest of the MLB commends TB's farm system though. They're churning out a lot of talent for the rest of baseball.
高校時代の監督が優秀で、佐々木朗希は投げすぎてないよ
He’s going to do well working with Rubin in San Diego
The Dodgers got him too.
Who’s Rubin?!? A sandwich? Never heard of her.
Come make LA your new home Mr. Roki Sasaki 😎Lets go Dodgers!
No.
Yes elbow troubles in his future 😂
Braves r better
@@DAD29 Yeah, you know where this is going. Everybody does, thats why his agent is trying to smokescreen the whole Dodger thing
At this point i just want to see a mega super team
Not a D-Backs fan, but imagine how the NL West would look if he were paired up with Burnes. 😮
Like two guys about to get smoked by the LA Dodgers.
@johnnyboyjohns2930 It's fun to dream, isn't it. 😉
Come to Queens and you’ll be the King of the pitching staff!! #LFGM
As fellow Japanese players who supported the dynasty *Ohtani* built with the Dodgers as a once-in-a-century two-way star, *Yamamoto* and *Sasaki* will surely leave their mark on MLB history.🎌👏
now Hasong Kim's little brother is coming to the Dodgers, too many Asians there, so my Japanese King Roki should go to the Phils or the Padres
Future Padre😤
Just my opinion but I think he’s better off not choosing a big market team to start off.
Sasaki come to the Mets and be "The Man," in the rotation.
Funny. They still won’t have enough 😂
You’ll see him when the Dodgers comes thru’.
This upload gave me a jumpscare because I thought he finally signed with a team I don't like. 😰
Sacramento A’s ‼️✅💚🤣🔥
4 or 5 years from now means TJ
But you can say that about any pitcher
After winning 2 Cy Youngs and helping the Dodgers win 2, 3 more World Series.
Come to SEA Roki
Roki is a padres 100%
Hold that dream. I’ll be back to comment in a couple weeks. 😂😂😂
Yikes..
commenting so I can come back when you’re wrong
@@johnnyboyjohns2930 Me too, Go Blue
Let's go padres ⚾️⚾️
@@johnnyboyjohns2930 👀
사사키 다저스 가자!
I hope Sasaki follows Tanaka-San and makes his way to the Yankees. Would be good to see him in pinstripes
Why?!? So the fanatics can cuss him out, flip him off, and wish sweet nothings on him, like they did at Ohtani?!? Stop it. He would look ridiculous in prison stripes.
Sasaki would've seen yankees fans who interfered with Mookie betts lol
@@Ericandroy Sasaki is better off with the Dodgers as they did the scouting and recognized his talent when he was in high school. Yanks wants to steal the talent from the Dodgers.
Future tommy John
Future Cy Young.
Roki Sasaki is an overrated pitcher. He has never even been able to defend a six-day middle-of-the-rotation starting rotation. The windy conditions at Chiba Lotte's home ballpark made it easier for his forkball to drop sharply, and that's how he achieved a perfect game. There is a big gap between Roki Sasaki's performance at his home ballpark and the visitor's ballpark. And Roki Sasaki, ignorant of non-baseball contracts, has been duped by his cronies in the advertising industry into trying to move to MLB on a minor league contract with unfavorable terms at the age of 23. Incidentally, there are other young NPB pitchers who are better than him. But many of them are trying to delay their MLB careers until they are 25 or older, because by going to MLB at age 25 or older, they can also sign long-term major league contracts.
thats what people said about ohtani
Yakyu Cosmopolitan rated him number 3 this year after Hiroya Miyagi and Hiroto Takahashi, and that's with his missing time due to injury. As for other young pitchers, we shall see as we're beginning to see more injuries in NPB as well. His scouting reports are better than any other pitchers coming over, and Lance Brozdowski rated his chance of turning into a reliever (if he fails to make it as a starter) only around 10%, and that's the worst case scenario. As for that attack article that insinuated that he didn't know about the 25-year rule, it's frankly insulting as it all but called him stupid. You really think someone who's been mulling the move for almost two years didn't consult with his agent, attorney, and others? I'd rather listen to experts who are bullish on his chances of being a top pitcher here. He just needs to stay healthy, which could be more possible given all the variables, starting with the climate (Korea and Japan were notoriouisly hot this summer and likely to get hotter in the coming years).
He did this to go to the dodgers to play with ohtani and yamamoto, win a ws championship, and grow in his skills with them. If he went to the mlb 2 years later and demanded a huge payout contract, he wouldnt be able to do it with the Dodgers.
中20とかならシーズンルーティン守れんじゃね？
Another japanese
If it comes down to the Mariners or Padres he'll choose the Mariners since the Mariners were 5-1 against the Padres in 2024.
I think you mean dodgers and dodgers
Future Mariner
😂
Like hye seung kim?!?
That’s BS
メンタル弱そうなとこだけ少し不安
Frist
He is so fragile.
troublemaker & Egoist
Roki Sasaki plays for a professional baseball team in Japan owned by a Korean company and hangs around with Korean advertising agencies.So maybe Sasaki Roki is making arrogant demands that are beyond his means?
a poorman's Hideo Fujimoto or Masaichi Kaneda
Whodat?!