The Cubs are meeting with Japanese pitching phenom Ru014dki Sasaki in LA on Friday, per 670 The Score’s Bruce Levine. No word yet on whether Jed Hoyer recycled the hologram the Cubs brass used when courting Shohei Ohtani back in 2017 or whether they’ll try to convince Sasaki to visit Wrigley Field over the weekend to recreate Seiya Suzuki‘s pilgrimage. Some folks are worried that all of the recruitment meetings are taking place in the Dodgers’ backyard, but that’s just a matter of convenience for Team Sasaki.
Still, the gravitational pull of the defending World Series champions is impossible to deny.