The Los Angeles Dodgers were always the favorites to sign Roki Sasaki, but it wasn't because there was a deal already in place like many critics speculated.

Andrew Friedman reveals the Los Angeles Dodgers' plan for Roki Sasaki to start the 2025 season against the Chicago Cubs.

This is how it feels, anyway, and it isn't just because the Dodgers were revealed as the winners of the Rōki Sasaki sweepstakes on Friday. It is a big deal that one of the most talented pitchers on Earth is destined for Dodger Blue, but there's more going on here.

At his age and talent level, Sasaki folds in perfectly for a Dodgers club that was already planning on running a six-man rotation.

The Dodgers cemented their status as the preferred MLB destination for NPB stars and transformed their rotation into a Mount Rushmore of Japanese pitching luminaries by winning the Rōki Sasaki sweepstakes.

We definitely did not," Friedman said via AM 570 Sports. Dodgers President of Baseball Operations Andrew Freidman absolutely owns people who thought Roki Sasaki already had his mind made up ...

"One of our goals is to have baseball fans in Japan convert to Dodger blue," president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman ... their interest in Sasaki known early, with Friedman describing ...

“Dodgers president Andrew Friedman said they began scouting Roki Sasaki six years ago when he was in high school,” Nightengale shared in a post on X (formerly Twitter). The Dodgers ...

Andrew Friedman responded to "ridiculous" claims that the Dodgers had a secret handshake deal with Roki Sasaki.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have quickly become the most hated franchise in Major League Baseball over the past 12 months or so. Their ridiculous amount of spending on big-name free agents, a large amount of deferred money and acquisitions of multiple superstars from Japan have helped them build a superteam,

Although Roki Sasaki seemed destined for the Los Angeles Dodgers from the beginning, his agent Joel Wolfe believed the Japanese phenom could have easily wound u

Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki, reliever Tanner Scott, reliever Kirby Yates, and retaining reliever Blake Treinen. The Dodgers' success this winter is because of the mindset Friedman had going into ...