They can go earlier under a special so-called “posting” system, in which the Japanese club agrees to let a player go.
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Japanese professional baseball players generally do not become free agents until they have played for almost a decade. This means the courtship for Sasaki might start earlier, as it did for Ohtani. Ohtani landed his deal with the Angels late in 2017, when he was only 23. “That is my dream,” Sasaki said of being a major leaguer. The bad news for fans of Major League Baseball is that - although Sasaki is reported to be working on his English - he’s not likely to go to North America very soon. Last week his fastball was clocked at 102.5 mph in a WBC prep game, tying a record in Japan held by Ohtani. Sasaki has the fastball, the wipeout forkball, and a developing slider - and he just turned 21. He had 14 strikeouts in that outing, including striking out the side in the eighth and showing off a 101-mph fastball. In the next start on April 17, he pitched eight perfect innings against the Nippon-Ham Fighters before he was pulled for cautionary reasons by manager Tadahito Iguchi. He pitched a perfect game on April 10, 2022, against Japan’s Orix Buffaloes and struck out 19 - 13 in a row at one point. How special is the Chiba Lotte Marines right-handed pitcher? He is something special,” San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish said of Sasaki at Japan’s training camp for the World Baseball Classic. “He’s got velocity, and his forkballs and sliders are great.
In simple English, Sasaki is likely to be the next big thing out of Japan following Shohei Ohtani, who debuted five years ago with the Los Angeles Angels. TOKYO - In Japan they call pitcher Roki Sasaki the “Monster of the Reiwa Era,” which translates roughly into a “once-in-a-generation superstar.” HOT START - Roki Sasaki of Japan pitches against the Czech Republic during a World Baseball Classic Pool B game at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on March 11.
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