Good Morning Birdland!
Well, the Ru014dki Sasaki sweepstakes have concluded, and they turned out just like we all expected them to. He’s signing with the Dodgers.
It is a result that will shock very few outside of the Blue Jays and Padres organizations. The Dodgers were the favorites from the very start of this process. After all, salary was never going to be the driving factor here since all teams were constrained there by international signing rules. So teams would need to be considered from the perspective of player comfort and opportunities for those players to earn money outside of baseball.