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Do Not Count Red Sox Out of Roki Sasaki Signing Sweepstakes Yet

Do Not Count Red Sox Out of Roki Sasaki Signing Sweepstakes Yet

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In the continuous competitors to sign generational Japanese pitching prodigy Roki Sasaki, the Boston Red Sox appeared like they were dead. Throughout his current journey to Los Angeles, the 23-year old Chiba Lotte Marines righty consulted with 7 groups, consisting of 2 from the East Coast.The Red Sox were not welcomed.Boston was among 20 groups to send a composed pitch to Sasaki, so when it stopped working to summon a welcome to fulfill, that might just be taken as a bad indication. On Friday, a report by previous Washington Nationals and Cincinnati Reds basic supervisor Jim Bowden, who now composes for The Athletic, mentioned that Sasaki had actually narrowed down his field of possible groups to 6.Not remarkably, those 6 groups were the exact same ones who met Sasaki in Los Angeles-- minu...
Sasaki met ‘set couple of’ of 20 interested groups

Sasaki met ‘set couple of’ of 20 interested groups

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Alden Gonzalez, ESPN Staff WriterDec 30, 2024, 09:38 PM ETCloseESPN baseball press reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016.The preliminary list of big league groups that revealed interest in Japanese right-hander Roki Sasaki extended to 20, his representative, Joel Wolfe of Wasserman Group, stated Monday.Sasaki, the uber-talented young beginning pitcher, will sign up with among those groups eventually in the 2nd half of January and is presently back home in Japan, considering the 2nd stage of his extremely inspected hiring procedure.Wolfe did not supply lots of specifics throughout a teleconference with the media, just to state that Sasaki met "a set couple of variety of groups" over these previous couple of weeks and wil...