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The 2024 Main League Baseball season has formally concluded after the Los Angeles Dodgers received their eighth World Collection 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 anticipated to signal with a big-league crew.
MLB Analyst Jensen Lewis revealed which crew he thinks Roki Sasaki would make an amazing 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.
Lewis seems to imagine that there might be some affect to affix the Padres resulting from 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 crew and ended up shedding within the Nationwide League Division Collection to the Dodgers.
Though the Padres fell within the NLDS, they received their first sequence towards the Atlanta Braves within the wild-card spherical.
It will likely be fascinating to see if the Padres pursue Sasaki this offseason and add to their already proficient beginning rotation that features Darvish.
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