Join the rotation right away, there's no set inning limit! LAD, Expectations and Concerns for Sasaki Direct Purchase Speed + Additional Adviser to Oral Type
Feb 07, 2025
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For now, the Dodgers plan to add Sasaki to the opening rotation. Dodgers President Andrew Friedman said at the joining ceremony of Sasaki on the 23rd of last month (Korea time), `Sasaki will immediately start preparing for the season from spring training. When I'm ready, I'll start the season in the starting rotation."I'll work with him in between starts. I'll be in charge of more games here, but I won't set an official figure for the innings. It will be much more important to cooperate with Sasaki and get feedback and see how he recovers after starting."
It means that he will enter the season-opening rotation and will not put an inning limit. However, Sasaki has never pitched more than 130 innings for the NPB Chiba Lotte Marines. His record is 129 ⅓ innings in 2022. Last year, he pitched 111 innings in 18 games. I couldn't play full time because of shoulder and abdominal muscle injuries.
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Sports channel ESPN reported on the 7th that `Spring Training 2025: Five Questions About the Los Angeles Dodgers' on how will Rocky adjust to the major leagues?' I raised questions about this through a corner.
The media said, `Sasaki is already an elite pitcher with the best skills, but Major League experts are expressing their concerns about the amount of pitches. In particular, he is concerned about the decrease in fastball speed last year. He said he has only thrown 202 innings in the last two years at Chiba Lotte.
Then 'Sasaki threw a 100-mile ball since high school due to his excellent athletic ability and strong platform. His arms are special' but 'But he's an injury-prone style. It will be an important test for the Dodgers, who have struggled in recent years to keep young pitchers healthy.'
Since Sasaki's posting was announced in mid-December last year, scouts from each club have expressed their opinion that he, who has never pitched 150 innings in a season, should take time and put him into practice no matter which team he goes to. ESPN said 'But the Dodgers don't plan to do that. He said there was no set pitching innings.
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The Dodgers are planning to operate a six-man rotation this season. This is because trauma remains from last year's mass injury to the starting lineup, and three Japanese pitchers are included in the rotation. Sasaki, existing Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Shohei Ohtani, who resumes pitching this year, should take the mound after a 5-6 day break, and pitchers returning to injury such as Tyler Glasnow, Tony Gonsolin and Dustin May should also be managed.
It is true that left-hander Blake Snell, who succeeded in reviving with a 1.45 ERA in 12 games in the second half of last year with the San Francisco Giants, has still not cleared the question of durability by filling only one season of the regular innings in the last six years.
If Sasaki succeeds in adapting, he can maintain the strongest rotation, but if there is any problem, he can't withstand the domino phenomenon and the six-man rotation can collapse.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
