No Dodger pitcher in the playoffs buried breaking and offspeed pitches low more than Flaherty, which might make for an interesting matchup, though his outcomes on those pitches were poor. The real matchup to keep an eye on here is Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who can get low with the splitter and ...
With the Dodgers, Paxton gives necessary depth. Yamamoto is making a massive transition to the Majors and has never been part of a five-man rotation. Glasnow has been injury-prone throughout his career and has never logged a lot of innings. Then there’s Walker Buehler, who will more than...
In December, Ohtani and Yamamoto took Sasaki to dinner, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation not authorized to speak publicly. The topics discussed are unknown. But weeks later, the meal has become one of the many examples of how Dodgers players pushed to bring Sasaki t...
The 25-year-old has been a much-needed steadying presence: He leads the team with seven wins and has a 2.93 ERA in 12 outings. Over his last 10 starts, he’s given up two runs or fewer in nine of them. Yamamoto has been as dominant as advertised and has started going deeper into...
It likely will be at least another couple of weeks beforeRoki Sasaki, the star 23-year-old pitcher coming to MLB from Japan next season, announces which team he will join. Advertisement Joel Wolfe, Sasaki’s agent at Wasserman Media Group,said at the winter meetingsthat the pitc...
Red Sox: Another starting pitcher At the outset of the offseason, Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow was clear about his mission to improve the starting rotation. However, the team couldn’t land their top target in Yoshinobu Yamamoto and hasn’t come up with a true Plan B. So...
Nomo gets a kick out of calling the local pizza place near his West Los Angeles home and having them ask if he wants “the usual.” He loves to walk along the Venice Beach boardwalk with his wife, Kikuko, and 3-year-old son, Takahiro, just another family out for a stroll. ...
You haveJack Flaherty, who is capable of going seven innings, and then a bunch of question marks.Landon Knackmight be able to give you six if the pressure of the postseason isn’t too much.Yoshinobu Yamamototook a step back with a poor outing Sunday, and hasn’t pitched more than four...
Yamamoto is making a massive transition to the Majors and has never been part of a five-man rotation. Glasnow has been injury-prone throughout his career and has never logged a lot of innings. Then there’s Walker Buehler, who will more than likely not start the season with Los Angeles ...
The difference is that this time, inShohei Ohtani,Yoshinobu Yamamoto,Roki Sasaki, Seiya Suzuki and Shota Imanaga, many of the biggest stars on show are not going on vacation. They’re going home. More than a game Baseball was introduced toJapan in the mid- to late-1800s, but it wasn’...