The 2024 Main League Baseball season has formally concluded after the Los Angeles Dodgers gained their eighth World Sequence title in franchise historical past.
Many Japanese-born gamers have come over to play within the MLB, and Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers is probably going the most well-liked.
This offseason, one other Japanese-born pitcher is predicted to signal with a big-league workforce.
MLB Analyst Jensen Lewis revealed which workforce he thinks Roki Sasaki would make an ideal match with.
“The San Diego Padres will be in there. Yu Darvish commands about as much respect as any Japanese-born player in the modern era,” Lewis stated.
“Yu Darvish commands about as much respect as any Japanese-born player in the modern era.”@JLEWFifty on why the #Padres can be an ideal match for Roki Sasaki:#FightForTheFaithful
🔗 https://t.co/fGPbvbjGlC pic.twitter.com/eUJxoW0ndw— MLB Community Radio on SiriusXM (@MLBNetworkRadio) November 10, 2024
Lewis seems to consider that there might be some affect to affix the Padres because of Darvish additionally pitching for the group and being from Japan.
Sasaki pitched abroad in 2024 the place he began 18 video games and had a report of 10 wins and 5 losses with a 2.35 ERA and 129 strikeouts in 111.0 innings pitched.
The expertise that a number of the Japanese-born gamers within the MLB have introduced makes any new participant coming to the MLB thrilling.
After ending the 2024 season with a report of 93 wins and 69 losses, the Padres made the postseason as a wild-card workforce and ended up shedding within the Nationwide League Division Sequence to the Dodgers.
Though the Padres fell within the NLDS, they gained their first sequence towards the Atlanta Braves within the wild-card spherical.
It is going to be fascinating to see if the Padres pursue Sasaki this offseason and add to their already gifted beginning rotation that features Darvish.
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