The 2024 Main League Baseball season has formally concluded after the Los Angeles Dodgers gained their eighth World Collection title in franchise historical past.
Many Japanese-born gamers have come over to play within the MLB, and Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers is probably going the preferred.
This offseason, one other Japanese-born pitcher is anticipated to signal with a big-league group.
MLB Analyst Jensen Lewis revealed which group he thinks Roki Sasaki would make a fantastic match with.
“The San Diego Padres will likely be in there. Yu Darvish instructions about as a lot respect as any Japanese-born participant within the trendy period,” Lewis stated.
Lewis seems to imagine that there could possibly be some affect to affix the Padres attributable to Darvish additionally pitching for the group and being from Japan.
Sasaki pitched abroad in 2024 the place he began 18 video games and had a document of 10 wins and 5 losses with a 2.35 ERA and 129 strikeouts in 111.0 innings pitched.
The expertise that a number of the Japanese-born gamers within the MLB have introduced makes any new participant coming to the MLB thrilling.
After ending the 2024 season with a document of 93 wins and 69 losses, the Padres made the postseason as a wild-card group and ended up shedding within the Nationwide League Division Collection to the Dodgers.
Though the Padres fell within the NLDS, they gained their first collection in opposition to the Atlanta Braves within the wild-card spherical.
It will likely be attention-grabbing to see if the Padres pursue Sasaki this offseason and add to their already proficient beginning rotation that features Darvish.
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