Roki Sasaki was more than wild during his first two MLB departures. (Photo by Harry How / Getty Images)
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The first feedback on Sasaki Roki are impressive terrain and many walks.
The recruit of Los Angeles Dodgers posted another short -term departure during its beginnings from the Dodger Stadium on Saturday, coming out after 1,2/3 innings with three strokes and two deserved points allowed more than four goals on balls and two withdrawals in the stick. He launched 61 throws in less than two work rounds, with only 32 of them.
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Sasaki’s lack of command was obvious to the first striker. He missed the striking area of ​​more than one foot on his first two fast bullets in Detroit Tigers Fringoff Hitter Zach McKinstry Before allowing only one, then load the bases before allowing the races on one from one from Manuel Margot And a walk of Trey Sweeney.
However, he obtained his first withdrawal from the Dodger Stadium in the process.
The second round was not much better. Sasaki walked two other strikers and was drawn with two men and two withdrawals, with the Dodgers manager, Dave Roberts Jack Dreyer To end the Channel.
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During two career starts, Sasaki has now traveled nine work rounds in 4 2/3. He avoided the disaster in His first departure against the Chicago Cubs in the Japan series By authorizing a single blow, but the tigers were more successful by putting Ball to Ball. With a quick ball from the 90s and Maybe the best separator in the worldSasaki has elite stuff, but so far, his execution has been lacking.
Control was not an important problem for Sasaki in his Japanese career, with an average of 2.0 steps per nine rounds for the Lotte Marines chiba. This is a Dodgers problem, and the one that Roberts speculated could be due to reversal before the match on Saturday::
“There were times when there was a reversal in there. It was then that a launcher loses one side of the arm. It’s a bit out of your delivery, a little overturned, so honestly, for me, I just want the ball to be ordered. I want the quick ball ordered.
So far, Sasaki has not been what you would call success according to the standards of Roberts.
Of course, Sasaki remains only 23 years old and he had a lot of reasons to push his land during his first two departures, playing in his country of origin during his beginnings of MLB then by taking the mound for his first appearance at the Dodger Stadium. However, for a player who has entered the season as a favorite for the recruit of NL of the year, he shows that he already has an important job to do.
