Prior to the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball officially posting right-hander Roki Sasaki for major league clubs last month, Major League Baseball conducted an investigation ...

The Dodgers bolstered their starting rotation on Wednesday with the addition of right-hander Roki Sasaki, who will join fellow Japanese pitchers Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Los Angeles, the team said in a statement.

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Roki Sasaki donned a No. 11 Los Angeles Dodgers jersey atop a makeshift stage on Wednesday afternoon and called it the culmination of "an incredibly difficult decision." When Sasaki was posted by the Chiba Lotte Marines in the middle of December -- a development evaluators have spent years anticipating -- 20 major league teams

Ohtani sent a text to Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman even before Sasaki’s agent informed the club.

The Dodgers introduced right-handed pitcher Roki Sasaki to the Los Angeles media on Wednesday, holding a press conference at Dodger Stadium. Just last week, Sasaki agreed to join the Dodgers after an extensive free-agent recruitment process that included multiple meetings with the Toronto Blue Jays and San Diego Padres.

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The 23-year-old pitcher donned a No. 11 jersey with R. Sasaki on the back at a news conference outside Dodger Stadium.

The night before Roki Sasaki was to be introduced at Dodger Stadium, the Japanese pitcher met LeBron James, Rui Hachimura and others at his first Lakers game.