Mets Named A "FRONT RUNNER" For Roki Sasaki BUT Still Not Considered Favorites? (New York Mets News)
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Per Ken Rosenthal's latest appearance on the Foul Territory Podcast, he has listed the Mets as front-runners for Sasaki alongside 4 other teams! Make sure to subscribe to this channel for more Mets offseason content including streams, videos, giveaways and community polls!
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Where does Roki Sasaki land IF not the Mets? Let me know! LFGM
Let's go, Mets, let's do this
I see him with San Diego. I gave up on wishing he'd become a NY Met.
Dudes coming in league for minimum wage as a rookie. Not even a doubt he's going to the Japanese Dodgers errr I mean the LA Dodgers. Mets will be in bidding war for him years down the road when he can get real money and Mets are awesome by then. As of now it makes no sense whatsoever for him to not play for Dodgers unless he has bad blood with ohtani which he does not.
I think Sasaki will select the Mets. He would be "The Man," in the Mets rotation and he would have a ton of commercial endorsement opportunities in NYC.
Japanese players don't care about any of that. He will stay 8n the Westcoast.
He’s not looking for that. His own agent doesn’t want him in a big market
@@JoelC724he’s probably staying on the west coast don’t sleep on the giants
@@JoelC724Actually, it used to be common for Japanese players to avoid MLB teams that already had other Japanese players, which was the meaning behind Joel Wolfe's comments on the topic. They didn't want to compete for the roster.
That said, West Coast is definitely easier for Japanese expats due to the availability of Japanese supermarkets, schools, restaurants, etc.
And some Japanese pitchers are sensitive to climate/weather, which is something that Darvish, Kikuchi, and Ohtani have all mentioned. Ohtani grew up in Iwate Prefecture and played professionally in Hokkaido, both locations are known for cold winters. Which is why he didn't meet with East Coast teams when he was posted at age 23. Darvish attended high in Sendai and also played for Hokkaido Fighters, and Kikuchi is from the same prefecture and high school as Ohtani...so they all know extremely cold snowy winters. Sasaki was also born and raised in Iwate Prefecture...which may or may not influence how chooses a location.
Don’t see coming here but I would be extremely happy if he did
Agreed
Fingers crossed
Me as well. LGM
He will probably land out west but would love to have him here to build our rotation around
Would be such an awesome addition for the Mets.
@ let’s hope that we hit the lottery and he selects the Mets!
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Pretty sure Mets waiting for his decision to make all other decisions on roster
Not sure if Sasaki impacts the offensive additions all that much but if the Mets have ANY plans at all for another SP, they will definitely wait for Roki I agree.
He is going to be a dodger i just to dont see how the mets can sway him away. Even if the mets have in recent times built a pitching lab that is getting more praise especially from roki himself, its hard to see him come here if he can go to LA with longer track record and the depth so he doesnt need to be the guy on day 1
I 100% agree - I still can’t fully get my hopes up. I’ve learned after that Yamamoto debacle last offseason.
Dodgers will land him of course if meta do somehow id be shocked!
The Mets shouldn't waste their time on Sasaki, he will end up signing with one of the teams in the west coast.
Hes going to the dodgers or the padres mets in 3rd
The Mets will sign Roki Sasaki to a minor-league deal, including a signing bonus of a whopping $2.55 million, so next season, Roki will have the best season by a rookie pitcher.
mets have very little international pool money
Really? Why?
"whopping 2.55 million" lol. You're jokin right? You're saying he gave up playing in japan for another 2 years and landing a 2-300 milion dollar contract to get a "whopping 2 million" dollar deal with the mets? 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Do some research!
I believe METS are the leading choice for Roki...He knows Senga, there are already built-in translator(s) and he relishes the opportunity to improve in the Pitching Lab which Roki has highlighted as important to his future development plan...Lastly, the initital mandated/capped contract is unimportant because he and his people know that he will command a record contract after his first contract and Steve Cohen has the wherewithal to set that record-for-a-pitcher deal
He has to perform to get that record contract, though... thus wanting the best situation he can possibly walk into right now. I think the Mets have all the tools he would want as well but not entirely convinced that draws him away from LAD when it's all said and done. Mets will at the very least be a strong consideration for what it's worth.
Yeah Roki is definitely not coming here.
All these Japanese
guys stick together
like lovers…..
Senga and Tanaka?
@ Tanaka is way old news. Now they are all gonna follow Ohtani.
This is why it's a lode,if you are going to the dodgers just say it and stop wasting our time.i said it before, I'm tired of the Japanese players, everyone have to cater to them