I do know! I do know! I don’t often put up on Saturday, however my 2025 rankings begin on Monday — already out there on Patreon — and I wanted to get out this put up.
Roki Sasaki broke the web on Friday when he mentioned he was signing with the Dodgers. The “web” on this case is the one man stunned by the obvious signing to come back down the pike in a very long time. I feel even the man who was in a coma for the final 12 months would wake and be like, “The workforce with Ohtani and Yamamoto signed Roki Sasaki? The place’s my No Shizz Sherlock Button? Do I’ve a No Shizz Sherlock Button to press or only a morphine button?” I’m sorry, One-Yr-Coma Man, you solely have a morphine button. A No Shizz Sherlock Button can be a prime vendor although if we had been speaking in regards to the Dodgers. Ohtani was in Hawaii for the final week, not even campaigning for Sasaki, ya know why? Sasaki is from Japan and anybody who’s walked the streets of Tokyo (I’ve — Gray’s a sophisticated traveler!) can let you know the place Sasaki was going to signal. Would you signal for a workforce that’s must-see TV in Japan with Ohtani and Yamamoto or would you go to the Jays as a result of they’ve higher outfield protection? I’m sorry, the place’s my No Shizz Sherlock button?
Dodgers are actually the shady dad on the Little League who shares his child’s workforce with all the nice gamers from a city over. Sure, that’s higher than the shady man who isn’t a dad however hangs across the Little League anyway. Coolwhip reached out to me final week and confirmed me what stats he was cooking up for Roki Sasaki, and my eyes popped out of my head like John Lithgow in Twilight Zone: The Film. I’ll let him come alongside within the subsequent week or so and put up his personal ideas, however Coolwhip was who broke down Yamamoto final 12 months and had me drooling, and was proper about him (his harm was unforeseeable). Roki Sasaki had a 2.02 ERA in Japan in 414 2/3 profession innings with a 11.4 Okay/9 and a couple of BB/9. His strikeouts dipped a bit final 12 months, however he’s solely 23 with utter gasoline. It averages as excessive as common fastballs go. Seeing it prepare dinner at 100.5 MPH in his WBC begin in 2023. His 88.3 MPH slider had a 50% whiff in that begin and that was his 2nd greatest pitch! His splitter that clocked at 91.2 MPH had a 52.9 Whiff% in that begin. Guys and 5 woman readers, I’ve drafted Roki Sasaki in all places I might in early drafts and I don’t see how he gained’t be at worst a 120-inning quantity two. At greatest, he’s an ace for 140 innings. Why so few innings? Oh, the Dodgers now have an eight-man rotation. Bobby Miller, who regarded like a prime pitching prospect two years in the past, is now again within the minors or pen. The Dodgers hold getting higher and 75% of the league does nothing. Once more, the place’s my No Shizz Sherlock button? 2025 Projections: 12-6/2.92/1.06/181 in 136 IP. Anyway, right here’s what else I noticed this offseason for 2025 fantasy baseball:
Myles Straw – Traded to the Jays. Satisfied if the Guards might have Jose Ramirez and nobody else and have a 50% likelihood of successful the division, they’d take that situation. Additionally, discover somebody who loves you just like the Jays love no-bat, all-defense outfielders.
