This is how it feels, anyway, and it isn't just because the Dodgers were revealed as the winners of the Rōki Sasaki sweepstakes on Friday. It is a big deal that one of the most talented pitchers on Earth is destined for Dodger Blue, but there's more going on here.

The Los Angeles Dodgers and free agent left-handed relief pitcher Tanner Scott have agreed to a four-year, $72 million contract, per Mark Feinsand of

This time, they won the pursue of Japanese ace pitcher Rōki Sasaki. The 23-year-old announced ... $162 million) and Blake Snell (five years, $182 million) wasn’t enough. The defending World ...

Rōki Sasaki, the most talented young pitcher on ... This is a star-studded Dodgers rotation that features Blake Snell, Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow, Sasaski, Clayton Kershaw ...

In a possible ode to Ohtani, Sasaki broke the news of his much-anticipated decision, which was long expected to be Los Angeles, with an Instagram post. RELATED: Who is Rōki Sasaki? What to know ...

Rōki Sasaki ... League West combatant San Francisco Giants – Sasaki and Ohtani are now teammates, soon to share a rotation. Along with Blake Snell – signed to a five-year, $182 million ...

Editor's Note: The story below originally ran in November, after Roki Sasaki's NPB team pledged to post the Japanese star pitcher. Sasaki announced Friday he was signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Somewhere in that posh pad in Arlington that Chuck Morgan calls a PA booth lies a copy of Stars Wars Imperial March. Dust it off. Cue it up. The Dodgers are coming to town in mid-April. Baseball has a supervillain again.

The same cannot be said for Blake Snell, who inked a five-year, $182 million contract with Los Angeles back in November. Sasaki and Snell will serve as quite the reinforcements for the reigning ...

then added Sasaki, Snell, Michael Conforto and Hyeseong Kim while retaining Teoscar Hernandez and Blake Treinen. It's been about as perfect an offseason as Dodgers fans could have imagined (non ...

Sasaki will join a rotation that will be headlined by countrymen Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto and also feature two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell and 2024 All-Star Tyler Glasnow.

The World Series-winning Los Angeles Dodgers made another giant splash in the free agent market Friday, when right-hander Roki Sasaki posted on Instagram that he planned to sign with them.