A little more than a decade ago, a pitcher by the name of R.A. Dickey threw a kind of knuckleball that baseball had essentially never seen. Now Roki Sasaki might be taking it a step further. Rather than sitting in the 60s or low 70s,

On Tuesday the Dodgers announced that Roki Sasaki and Yoshinobu Yamamoto will get the starts in the series against the Cubs in Tokyo

Tadahito Iguchi, who was Sasaki’s manager for the pitcher’s first three seasons in the Japan Pacific League from 2021-23, believes he will continue to improve.