{"id":25962,"date":"2025-01-13T20:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=25962"},"modified":"2025-01-13T20:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:01:40","slug":"update-latest-dodgers-international-moves-hint-theyre-getting-close-to-good-roki-sasaki-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=25962","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Latest Dodgers international moves hint they\u2019re getting close to good Roki Sasaki news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_crop,x_0,y_23,w_4453,h_2504\/c_fill,w_720,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/GettyImages\/mmsport\/75\/01jhbtgv40dtz4rr45a9.jpg\" alt=\"World Baseball Classic Semifinals: Mexico v Japan\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-0\" class=\"mt-[18px] md:mt-0 mb-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\">As the Los Angeles Dodgers prepare to\u00a0offer Roki Sasaki a contract\u00a0when the international signing period opens Jan. 15, they certainly seem confident that the Japanese phenom is going to accept it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\">The Dodgers have some of the deepest pockets in Major League Baseball and typically spare no expense when it comes to pursuing coveted free agents, but Sasaki\u2019s international prospect status limits MLB teams to signing him strictly using their international bonus pool money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\">Given these restrictions, Los Angeles is already trying to gain an edge over their competition by clearing bonus pool space and even putting other international signings on hold.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-2\" class=\"scroll-mt-24 my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\">Latest Dodgers international moves hint they\u2019re getting close to Roki Sasaki decision<\/h2>\n<p>Following\u00a0Marcos Grunfeld\u2019s report\u00a0from earlier this week that the Dodgers were asking members of their 2025 international signing class to hold off until 2026 in order to clear space in this year\u2019s bonus pool,\u00a0Francys Romero reported\u00a0Saturday that the club had brought back to the market two of its highest bonuses for thus year\u2019s international signing period: shortstop Darrell Morel (Dominican Republic, $1.1M) and outfielder Orlando Pati\u00f1o (Venezuela, $400,000).<\/p>\n<p>The Pittsburgh Pirates have reportedly already swooped in and nabbed Morel, who is now expected to sign with Pittsburgh for a $1.7 million bonus \u2013 $600,000 more than his original offer from the Dodgers \u2013 when the international signing period opens Jan. 15.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" data-uw-rm-sr=\"\">L.A. currently has $5.1 million in international bonus pool money of a maximum amount of just over $7.5 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\" data-uw-rm-sr=\"\">In sending Morel and Pati\u00f1o back to the market and asking their other international signees to delay their signing by a year, the Dodgers are squeezing out every dollar they have to make a competitive offer Sasaki.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\">Sasaki is expected to sign with an MLB team in the next international signing period, which opens Jan. 15. A second round of meetings with teams is expected to take place around this time, though whether the Dodgers have received a second meeting with the 23-year-old pitcher is not known at this time.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\" class=\"my-[18px] [&amp;_a]:text-secondary my-f-1\">That said, it was already\u00a0widely believed that Sasaki would land in Los Angeles. The Dodgers\u2019 latest international moves have all but confirmed it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Los Angeles Dodgers prepare to\u00a0offer Roki Sasaki a contract\u00a0when the international signing period opens Jan. 15, they certainly seem confident that the Japanese phenom is&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25962","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>UPDATE: Latest Dodgers international moves hint they\u2019re getting close to good Roki Sasaki news - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=25962\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UPDATE: Latest Dodgers international moves hint they\u2019re getting close to good Roki Sasaki news - 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