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Video: Japanese Phenom Roki Saski Posted, Where Will He Sign?

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Roki Sasaki will be the most sought-after international free agent this off-season and his 30-day window to negotiate and make a deal with teams is now open. Who are the favorites to pursue Sasaki and could any team make a surprise offer that brings Sasaki to their rotation.

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If Im sasaki , Im looking to get paid since Im locked into six years (standard minor league contract). Best avenue to making bucks is commercials.  Id ask Ohtani if hed do one with me but take less than his going rate for such commercial (allowing the company to spend more on me, Sasaki)

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https://www.mlb.com/news/roki-sasaki-free-agent-favorites?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage

Execs believe Dodgers or Padres. Mariners are the darkhorse West Coast team. Giants and Rangers may also be a fit. Cubs? Sox are another "very interested" AL team based on Breslow's push of the history of successful Japanese pitchers in this market. Mets and Yankees may or may not be ruled out based on the agent's comments on market size. 

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In the AL, the Red Sox are very serious about making a pitch to the Sasaki team. The main selling point might be the history of Japanese pitchers having success and positive experiences playing in Boston: Daisuke Matsuzaka, Uehara and Junichi Tazawa. They have an impressive pitching development program and it certainly doesn’t hurt when the general manager, Craig Breslow, can speak directly to it (as opposed to just handing it off to “the experts”). Breslow also personally scouted Sasaki for one of his starts in Japan in September.

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59 minutes ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

Internet reports Roki's entourage is already scouting out apartments in key neighborhoods... Mission Beach, La Jolla, Beverly Hills, Venice... (are we still on the internet?)

Venice would be a bad commute IMO. 

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He throws the baseball 100mph and is from Japan so of course the Red Sox won't sign him.

Skip to 1:23 mark to see his 102 mph fastball.

 

They haven't gone for a Japanese pitcher since Uehara in 2013.

The Yankees and Padres are reportedly interested. West Coast teams generally have the best chance of signing top Japan talents for some reason.

Posting expenses have gone down significantly but salary demands have risen to compensate.

Can't see the cheapskate Red Sox even making a competitive bid.

 

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5 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

In the AL, the Red Sox are very serious about making a pitch to the Sasaki team. The main selling point might be the history of Japanese pitchers having success and positive experiences playing in Boston: Daisuke Matsuzaka, Uehara and Junichi Tazawa. They have an impressive pitching development program and it certainly doesn’t hurt when the general manager, Craig Breslow, can speak directly to it (as opposed to just handing it off to “the experts”). Breslow also personally scouted Sasaki for one of his starts in Japan in September.

The Red Sox have been very serious about coming in 2nd or 3rd place in bidding for all the premier free agents. "Look fans, we TRIED. But Free agents cost too much money!"

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25 minutes ago, vjcsmoke said:

The Red Sox have been very serious about coming in 2nd or 3rd place in bidding for all the premier free agents. "Look fans, we TRIED. But Free agents cost too much money!"

Until we win a significant bid, the sham continues.

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12 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

Venice would be a bad commute IMO. 

Agreed - those gondola boats could be dangerous for a pitcher; Roki could hurt his rotator cuff manning the long-handled oar... unless, he hires a gondolier to do the rowing.

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11 hours ago, vjcsmoke said:

He throws the baseball 100mph and is from Japan so of course the Red Sox won't sign him.

Skip to 1:23 mark to see his 102 mph fastball.

 

They haven't gone for a Japanese pitcher since Uehara in 2013.

The Yankees and Padres are reportedly interested. West Coast teams generally have the best chance of signing top Japan talents for some reason.

Posting expenses have gone down significantly but salary demands have risen to compensate.

Can't see the cheapskate Red Sox even making a competitive bid.

 

https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sawamhi01.shtml

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6 minutes ago, Bellhorn04 said:

Can't even get interested, because I suspect the Sox are probably about 25th on the list of teams he's looking at. 

I'd say top 10, but probably closer to 10th than we're hoping. 

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5 minutes ago, Bellhorn04 said:

And 10th might as well be 25th.

Well, the top 9 might not like his medicals or may have some sort of weather event that demolishes their stadium like what happened in TB. 

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Just now, moonslav59 said:

Yes, and is a way, so would be #2.

Right, but when we're #2 it's a bit more stimulating and there's hope of adding another silver medal to the Interest Kings hardware.

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16 minutes ago, Bellhorn04 said:

Right, but when we're #2 it's a bit more stimulating and there's hope of adding another silver medal to the Interest Kings hardware.

It seems like we lead the league in Bronze Medals.

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7 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

More to come too. For example they may sign one of TH and Santander, but they certainly arent getting both and one is winding up on this list for at least a couple points.

I don't believe they are going to sign either. For some reason, they are trying to be in on everyone rather than coming up with a plan and sticking to it. I think it's probably because they are assigning values to players and aren't wanting to go over said value I doubt they sign Teoscar and believe his camp is just using the Sox to up the offer from the Dodgers. 

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19 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

I don't believe they are going to sign either. For some reason, they are trying to be in on everyone rather than coming up with a plan and sticking to it. I think it's probably because they are assigning values to players and aren't wanting to go over said value I doubt they sign Teoscar and believe his camp is just using the Sox to up the offer from the Dodgers. 

If our biggest outlay, this winter is Teoscar at about $70M/3 or $80M/4, that falls far short of the tax line, it's not even funny.

It would make the $700M offer to Soto look more like part of the continuing sham.

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25 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

I don't believe they are going to sign either. For some reason, they are trying to be in on everyone rather than coming up with a plan and sticking to it. I think it's probably because they are assigning values to players and aren't wanting to go over said value I doubt they sign Teoscar and believe his camp is just using the Sox to up the offer from the Dodgers. 

Im not comfortable with the notion that because they are lining up plans b,c,d they arent truly trying for plan A. I think this may have become the case with Soto (started focusing more on secondary options, when the bidding reached uncomfortable levels), but wasnt the case from the onset.

Im not conspiratorial enough to think its pretend interest. Line in the sand, I can believe.

But the numbers for TH arent crazy. 3 yrs / 70m sounds reasonable.

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