MIAMI– Roki Sasaki, possibly the very best bottle worldwide that’s not in the big leagues, will certainly take the sphere for Japan in its Globe Baseball Standard semifinal competition versus Mexico from LoanDepot Park on Monday, Japanese supervisor Hideki Kuriyama introduced after his group’s exercise Sunday.
Sasaki, 21, has actually published a 1.95 age in 212 2/3 profession innings for Nippon Expert Baseball, starting out 260 batters and also strolling 42 while frustrating players with a 100-plus-mph heater and also a terrible splitter.
Last April, while starring for the Chiba Lotte Militaries, Sasaki tossed 17 successive best innings, retiring 52 successive batters at the same time. Sasaki set out 19 batters in an ideal video game– the initial for Japan’s leading specialist organization considering that 1994– and also was drawn after 8 best innings in the beginning that complied with. The following time he took the pile, he gave up an appealed the initial pitch.
Sasaki, that will certainly encounter Group Mexico left-hander Patrick Sandoval, enabled an unearned run in 3 2/3 innings in a thrashing over the Czech Republic previously on the planet Baseball Standard on March 11. Sasaki has actually stated he yearns to play in the big leagues, yet there have actually been no signs of when– or if– his group will certainly publish him.
” He’s really young, if you consider the age, yet he’s an extremely gifted bottle,” Kuriyama stated with an interpreter.
