We all know one of many Padres wants is beginning pitching so who’d be a greater match than Roki Sasaki—a proficient 23-year-old who gained’t value $325 million? We will make this case all we wish nevertheless it looks as if we’re going to be ready just a little bit for his resolution.
His NPB staff, the Chiba Lotte Marines, introduced this previous Saturday they’d be posting him however we don’t know precisely when that’s going to occur. As soon as that happens, there might be a 45-day window for Sasaki to signal with a MLB staff.
Since he’s below 25 Sasaki should signal an beginner contract, which ought to make each staff within the league need him (like Shohei Ohtani earlier than he signed with Anaheim). To not point out, he has a 2.02 ERA the final 4 seasons in Japan’s highest degree of baseball.
With all that curiosity, it’s clearly going to take time for he and his camp to determine the place they need Sasaki’s subsequent six years to be. If I’m Sasaki I wish to take on a regular basis I’ve to speak with groups, different Japanese MLB gamers and go go to the entire potential cities I might be spending my time in for the subsequent chapter of my life.
Financially, the baseball world’s doubtless going to have to attend as nicely as a result of the worldwide bonus swimming pools for groups don’t reset till January 15, 2025. Why would Sasaki’s present NPB staff put up him earlier than then since they’d obtain much less cash and why would he go signal someplace when quite a lot of groups have most likely already used most of their bonus cash for 2024?
Padres 2024 remaining bonus pool cash: $2,200
Dodgers 2024 remaining bonus pool cash: $2,502,500
Padres 2025 bonus pool cash: $6,261,600
Dodgers 2025 bonus pool cash: $5,146,200
through MLB.com
