[Sasaki can and probably should listen to multiple teams if he is posted, but because he’ll only be able to make so much money, it’ll really come down to where he wants to play. With the new wave of Japanese players across MLB, many could tempt him — the Dodgers, Cubs, Padres, Mets — but his insistence to get to the States coinciding with Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s World Series win in their first seasons in LA? It would be shocking if he doesn’t choose the Dodgers, who also have a long-standing relationship with him dating back to his high school years.](https://dodgersway.com/dodgers-adding-roki-sasaki-to-super-rotation-is-growing-more-inevitable-01jc3n84yzpy)
How much international bonus pool money do the Giants have? I don’t think we have that much remaining if I remember correctly.
Apparently the Padres are the serious threat, but this has Dodgers written all over, especially since they still have a good majority if not all of their pool money left.
Fuck
Japanese players used to spread out and go to different teams. Now they’re all just Ohtani dick riders
Dodgers have been saving their intl bonus pool, Giants limited theirs by signing Snell and Chapman. What are we doing? I want Sasaki so bad
Buster better put in a strong bid at the least but who are we kidding, Roki has no interest in SF.
99% chance he’s a Dodger, but I want to believe
Yeah, he’s almost surely a Dodger. With the restrictions on pay, there’s no way for another team to lure him away with money. The league is fucked.
Weird Lotte could have made tens of millions if they had waited two more years. They chose not to post him last season. The Dodgers paid Orix over $50 million for Yamamoto. Sasaki is missing out on hundreds of millions and a major league contract. Even if San Francisco didn’t have negative media attention in Japan, the Giants are down $1 million in their international bonus pool and are expected to sign the top international free agent. They should’ve signed Shoto Imanaga. He was a steal for the Cubs and has been an ambassador for the team.
Why does everyone say it’s a done deal he goes to dodgers?
NPB Chiba Lotte has approved Roki Sasaki’s transfer to ~~MLB~~ Dodgers via the posting system.
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The dodgers have 2 farm systems 🤢🤢
The most obvious Dodger of all time…. I’m not even gonna waste a thought hoping he would come here
posey better work his magic and sign him!
Edit: Fraudger fans in here downvoting per usual lmfaoo
This guy is really passing up on $300M+ to sign with the Dodgers a few years early…who has it worse than us?
Might be the only guy that it would be more delusional to think he’ll sign with us than Juan Soto
yeah i’d say there is a 95% chance he’ll sign with the dodgers
[New reporting suggests Roki Sasaki will be posted to MLB this year, and the Dodgers are a lock to sign him](https://dodgersway.com/dodgers-adding-roki-sasaki-to-super-rotation-is-growing-more-inevitable-01jc3n84yzpy)
[Sasaki can and probably should listen to multiple teams if he is posted, but because he’ll only be able to make so much money, it’ll really come down to where he wants to play. With the new wave of Japanese players across MLB, many could tempt him — the Dodgers, Cubs, Padres, Mets — but his insistence to get to the States coinciding with Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s World Series win in their first seasons in LA? It would be shocking if he doesn’t choose the Dodgers, who also have a long-standing relationship with him dating back to his high school years.](https://dodgersway.com/dodgers-adding-roki-sasaki-to-super-rotation-is-growing-more-inevitable-01jc3n84yzpy)
[If the Dodgers sign Roki Sasaki (which would cost just the international bonus pool), they could have a top of the rotation of: ](https://x.com/noahcamras/status/1855140906728616311)
[1. Shohei Ohtani ](https://x.com/noahcamras/status/1855140906728616311)
[2. Yoshinobu Yamamoto ](https://x.com/noahcamras/status/1855140906728616311)
[3. Roki Sasaki ](https://x.com/noahcamras/status/1855140906728616311)
[4. T](https://x.com/noahcamras/status/1855140906728616311)[yler Glasnow ](https://x.com/noahcamras/status/1855140906728616311)
[Ohtani and Yamamoto will also recruit Sasaki, their Team Japan WBC teammate.](https://x.com/noahcamras/status/1855140906728616311)
How much international bonus pool money do the Giants have? I don’t think we have that much remaining if I remember correctly.
Apparently the Padres are the serious threat, but this has Dodgers written all over, especially since they still have a good majority if not all of their pool money left.
Fuck
Japanese players used to spread out and go to different teams. Now they’re all just Ohtani dick riders
Dodgers have been saving their intl bonus pool, Giants limited theirs by signing Snell and Chapman. What are we doing? I want Sasaki so bad
Buster better put in a strong bid at the least but who are we kidding, Roki has no interest in SF.
99% chance he’s a Dodger, but I want to believe
Yeah, he’s almost surely a Dodger. With the restrictions on pay, there’s no way for another team to lure him away with money. The league is fucked.
Weird Lotte could have made tens of millions if they had waited two more years. They chose not to post him last season. The Dodgers paid Orix over $50 million for Yamamoto. Sasaki is missing out on hundreds of millions and a major league contract. Even if San Francisco didn’t have negative media attention in Japan, the Giants are down $1 million in their international bonus pool and are expected to sign the top international free agent. They should’ve signed Shoto Imanaga. He was a steal for the Cubs and has been an ambassador for the team.
Why does everyone say it’s a done deal he goes to dodgers?
NPB Chiba Lotte has approved Roki Sasaki’s transfer to ~~MLB~~ Dodgers via the posting system.
FTFY