{"id":16847,"date":"2024-12-10T21:43:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=16847"},"modified":"2024-12-10T21:43:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:43:26","slug":"roki-sasakis-desired-team-fits-could-make-red-sox-ideal-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=16847","title":{"rendered":"Roki Sasaki&#8217;s Desired Team Fits Could Make Red Sox Ideal Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-1978007\"><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??-->The Boston Red Sox are linked to multiple top free agents and trade targets, but another intriguing pitcher got some buzz at MLB winter meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Roki Sasaki was officially posted this week meaning teams have a 45-day window to negotiate with the Japanese pitcher. The right-hander will be eligible to sign as an international agent once the next international signing period begins Jan. 15.<\/p>\n<p>His agent Joel Wolfe spoke to media in Dallas and offered details of the kinds of questions Sasaki\u2019s been asking leading up to his arrival to MLB.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s talked to a lot of players, foreign players, that have been on his team with (his Nippon Professional Baseball team) Chiba Lotte,\u201d Wolfe told reporters, per The Athletic\u2019s Jen McCaffrey. \u201cHe asked a lot of questions about weather, about comfortability, about pitching development. And just watching what other Japanese players in the major leagues are doing and how they are doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Sasaki wants to ensure he continues to develop as a starting pitcher, the 23-year-old could consider the Red Sox as a viable destination. Andrew Bailey and his staff proved to be beneficial for the developments of Kutter Crawford and Tanner Houck. Chief baseball officer Craig Breslow and manager Alex Cora\u2019s confidence in the pitching staff could be a potential selling point for Sasaki.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As for the weather, it depends on how much he likes the cold.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Sasaki is traveling to the United States and will begin meeting with teams next week before returning home for Christmas. Wolfe didn\u2019t divulge how many teams they will meet with, but they do plan on meeting in one central location.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re gonna leave it open-ended, depending on how the first round of meetings go, how many meetings he actually has, how many total meetings he plans to have,\u201d Wolfe said. \u201cTeams have already begun sending presentations both in video and powerpoint, PDF-form, that sort of thing. But we didn\u2019t give teams a hard deadline to submit that information because we want them to be able to put the time in to do it right. Obviously some teams were already working on these things, some of them for months I believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wolfe noted how Sasaki hasn\u2019t gotten the best treatment from media in Japan; in Japanese culture, it\u2019s sometimes considered disrespectful for players to leave NPB for MLB at a young age. A small to mid-size market was in consideration but not a dealbreaker. You certainly could make the argument that Boston has a small-market feel to it if that was a concern.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Sasaki deal is unlikely to happen during the Winter Meetings, but he\u2019s an intriguing name to keep an eye on in free agency.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roki Sasaki&#8217;s agent Joel Wolfe spoke to reporters at MLB winter meetings and offered insight on his clients desired landing spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Roki Sasaki&#039;s Desired Team Fits Could Make Red Sox Ideal Spot - 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