LA Dodgers Reported to Sign Roki Sasaki

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1. Good video

2. Oh god no!

3. Dan looking old as usual

4. Nice dodgers get better

5. 😂

6. 😅

7. It's BS folks….all cause the league let LA defer Ohtani $$$. Deferment is ok but damn near the whole salary.?????? GTFO.

   And this is why baseball is dying folks!!! Look at WS ratings JUST HORRIBLE for a big market west coast vs east coast series. We've had much much bigger draws!

8. Not 100% buying Sasaki is getting posted. He might ultimately get posted, but as of right now. all the rumors are coming from the state side. Kiley McDaniel’s article is about his prediction of the offseason. There haven’t been any reports from Japan the Chiba Lotte Marines will post him.

9. The Giants can't let that happen.

10. Sasaki wants to sign with a small market team, so he won't be going to the Dodgers.

11. Giants fans keep living in the past with there three WS in five years. The giants won’t be good for more than decade 😂

12. No one wants to go play in Gotham City, woke, hippie SF.

13. roki declining to sign a new contract with the marines mean very little. it just means that he can’t play baseball in japan or us (and perhaps other leagues as well) until he signs a new contract with the marines.

    i think marines fans want him to stay and people in japan at large are either indifferent or split on whether they want to see him in mlb early, so it really doesn’t make sense to let him go now. maybe an equivalent would be for the padres to place jackson merrill on an unconditional release waiver. and u can probably argue that it’s even worse than that given the magnitude of the potential posting fee in the future. that’s how irrational it would be for the marines if they were to post him now.

    roki is under team control until the end of 2028 season. npb free agency is after 9 years for high school grads, and 8 years for college, etc. the lotte marines would not want to post him until 1 year remaining in the contract, i.e. 2028 season. or 2027 at the earliest (he just turned 23 and a npb player is not ellgible for a major league contract until 25).

    the current posting system is structured in a way that teams have very little incentive to post their star players until they are elligible for major league free agent contracts in the mlb, or age 25. keep in mind ohtani’s posting fee for his minor league contract was grandfathered from the prior system and nippon ham got $20m. npb team owners are generally corporations and not individuals so they have a fiduciary duty. in the case of roki, it’s Lotte.

    also, if roki wants to maximize his contract dollars, he would need to wait until 2029 season.

    also, not sure why people keep talking about who has more international slot money. these are players coming from the “majors” of another league. they are not high school grads. 1-2 million dollar difference mean very little to them.

14. I told you that all Japanese players from this point on will sign with the Dodgers, playing with their countryman and having other players to communicate with.

15. First off Soto is a liability in the field – as shown in the WS. Next, why would Yabnkees pay him $700 M? Dodgers smoked the Yankees – that Yankee team will never beat LA in a WS. SO why pay $700 M to at best lose in the WS?

16. There's another big name in Japan league who i think could hit 60 home runs in MLB and this guy Murakami, that guy is a beast.

17. No mlb players should make more than Shohei

18. Here we go again with the DODGERS…

19. This is an impossible! Sasaki will not signed with Dodger! Sasaki play in Japan at the 3A level not thing compared with MLB!

20. Everyone stated that MLB needs a salary cap. Because there is not one, Dodgers is the new Alabama football.

21. LMAO…. 700m for 1 trick pony Soto?
    this fool will be lucky to git 500M when its all said and done.
    people still on crack?

22. cant stop these baby mama dodgers……. dey are too good

23. Doyers 4 👉 💙