Prized Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki says in an Instagram post he intends to sign with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. A 23-year-old right-hander whose fastball tops 100 mph, Sasaki will ...

Following the World Series triumph in October last year, the Los Angeles Dodgers upgraded the rotation by signing two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell in the offseason.

But it also featured an all-Japan pitching matchup with the Padres starting Yu Darvish and the Dodgers sending Yoshinobu Yamamoto to the mound. Yamamoto pitched five scoreless innings in picking ...