Roki Sasaki has been making headlines every now and then, with fans anticipatingly waiting for his upcoming MLB debut. Talking about his debut, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced signing him officially, earlier this month. However, recently, it came to light that Sasaki might have dealt in bad faith with other teams who reached out to him during the draft season.
MLB analyst Buster Olney highlighted Roki Sasaki's bad faith during MLB draft
During the draft season, Roki Sasaki spoke to all the 30 clubs in the league just to get signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers. ESPN's insider Buster Olney made an appearance on the "Dodgers Nation" podcast last week, during which he revealed how the other MLB teams have been unhappy with Sasaki.
Apart from the Dodgers, who have obviously been happy to sign him, other teams in the league are "mad" with Roki Sasaki. The reason is because during the draft process, all the teams were made to share their "proprietary information" about improving "his fastball" with Sasaki.
However, considering that Dodgers had been in contact with Sasaki since high school, and he had already made up his mind to sign with them, the fact that he proceeded to have access to the "proprietary information" from other teams just to sign with the Dodgers, ended up upsetting those clubs.
“Folks with other teams absolutely believe the fix is in on this thing. They thought there was an agreement behind the scenes, that the Dodgers had this thing going all along. They were mad with how it played out. The teams going through this process were asked to give information to Sasaki on what they would suggest to improve his fastball," Olney said.
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"They handed that information over and now it’s proprietary information that’s in the hands of the pitcher and the Dodgers. A lot of it made teams mad but the bottom line is the Dodgers get a great pitcher and I think the Dodgers right now are the perfect team to have him," Olney concluded.
If we look at this from a far-away perspective, it makes sense for all the teams to be "mad" at him for having access to their "proprietary information," which was further shared with the Dodgers. However, there might be other angles to it too that haven't been made public yet. So, do you think it's obvious for the teams to be "mad" at Sasaki?