A sign of a great organization in sports is one that doesn’t get complacent.
You win the championship?
Pedal to the metal as you crush everyone in your path.
So who is Sasaki?
This monster has been on MLB radars for quite some time.
His fastball easily hits triple digits to accompany a nasty splitter.
In the World Baseball Classic he showed it all off.
His splitter is unfair.
Everything about him is special.
If he can just stay healthy he’ll come over to the MLB and dominate.
That means he can’t sign a 12 year, $325M deal like Yoshinobu Yamamoto just did.
He’ll need to accrue years of service time before he can earn a monster contract.
If he’s posted this soon that means there will be no bidding war for Sasaki’s services.
LA is where everyone assumes he’s going to end up if he’s in fact posted this offseason.
The rich just get richer.
They’ll be able to assemble a rotation that looks like Ohtani-Yamamoto-Saski-Glasnow-May if they’re all healthy.
That is fucking ridiculous and there’s really nothing anyone can do about it.
It seems like the Dodgers have become the Japanese player’s pipeline.
Pressure will be low and he’ll be with former stars from the NPB.
The NPB is basically a farm system for the Dodgers now.
Outside of an international draft I’m not sure what else you’re free to change honestly.
It’s simply a situation that the Dodgers are capitalizing on and don’t have any plans to stop.
