DALLAS — Like the rest of Major League Baseball, the Dodgers have closely monitored star Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki over the last couple years, anxiously waiting for the hard-throwing phenom to come to MLB from Japan.
And now that the 23-year-old has been officially posted for major league teams to sign this offseason, they’re about to find out whether they actually possess what Sasaki is looking for in his next club.
On the second day of MLB’s annual Winter Meetings on Tuesday, Sasaki’s agent, Joel Wolfe of Wasserman Media Group, began to detail such factors during a media scrum turned informal news conference at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas — speaking at length to reporters craving any information about the talented, hard-throwing, potential future ace.