{"id":30795,"date":"2025-01-18T07:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T07:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/japanese-pitching-star-roki-sasaki-says-hes-joining-los-angeles-dodgers\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T07:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T07:18:19","slug":"japanese-pitching-star-roki-sasaki-says-hes-joining-los-angeles-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/japanese-pitching-star-roki-sasaki-says-hes-joining-los-angeles-dodgers\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese pitching star R\u014dki Sasaki says he\u2019s joining Los Angeles Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Sasaki, 23, says he intends to sign with LA Dodgers <\/li>\n<li>Padres and Blue Jays were said to be other finalists<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Prized Japanese pitcher R\u014dki Sasaki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DE8cyBEz4xS\">says in an Instagram post<\/a> he intends to sign with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n<p>A 23-year-old right-hander whose fastball tops 100mph, Sasaki will join fellow Japanese stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in a move many baseball executives have long expected.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jan\/17\/roki-sasaki-signing-with-los-angeles-dodgers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sasaki, 23, says he intends to sign with LA Dodgers Padres and Blue Jays were said to be other finalists Prized Japanese pitcher R\u014dki Sasaki says in an Instagram post he intends to sign with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. A 23-year-old right-hander whose fastball tops 100mph, Sasaki will join fellow Japanese stars &#8230; <a title=\"Japanese pitching star R\u014dki Sasaki says he\u2019s joining Los Angeles Dodgers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/18\/japanese-pitching-star-roki-sasaki-says-hes-joining-los-angeles-dodgers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Japanese pitching star R\u014dki Sasaki says he\u2019s joining Los Angeles Dodgers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}