Pitcher Roki Sasaki of the Chiba Lotte Marines of the Japanese League is being posted, per multiple reports. That means the righthander, who turned 23 just last week, will be eligible to sign with a major league team, and will be pitching in the major leagues in 2025.
In case you aren’t familiar with Sasaki, Eric Longenhagen wrote about him in August over at Fangraphs, in a piece anticipating that he might be posted this offseason and looking at his potential market. Sasaki is described by Longenhagen as someone who has been the “Lebron James of Japanese baseball since his junior year” of high school, and he’s considered to be one of the best pitchers under the age of 25 in the world.