Sasaki entered MLB as one of the most-hyped prospects in living memory, in the zip code of Paul Skenes and Stephen Strasburg. However, it's becoming increasingly clear he did not enter the league as a finished product like his teammate Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who accomplished much more in NPB before coming over.

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The Los Angeles Dodgers signed pitcher Roki Sasaki with the belief that he could follow—and potentially surpass—countrymen Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound. While some adjustment was expected as Sasaki transitioned to pitching full time in Major League Baseball,

The first 20% of the 2025 MLB regular season is in the books and things are beginning to look normal, for lack of a better term. Only one qualified hitter (Aaron Judge) is hitting over .400 and just a handful of qualified starters have a sub-2.

Roki Sasaki had a bad outing with the Diamondbacks after surrendering five earned runs. MLB fans created memes after his loss.

When the Dodgers signed Roki Sasaki, he pretty much instantly became every prospect outlet's unanimous pick as the No. 1 prospect in baseball. It was kind of a weird technicality, since Sasaki was always going to end up making the major league rotation,