The splitter is on the rise in Major League Baseball, and the Dodgers are cornering the market. Splitters were thrown more often in 2024 than in any other season of the pitch tracking era, which goes back to 2008.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s first season in Major League Baseball was a big success. The Los Angeles Dodgders’ 26-year-old right-handed pitcher

Sasaki said he prioritized joining a team that would embrace a Japanese player, but explained that there were other reasons that he ultimately chose the Dodgers.

They spent over $1 billion last offseason on Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow, and Teoscar Hernandez, adding them to a roster that already had three consecutive 100-win seasons. Sure enough, they won the World Series. Just months after ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series in 2024, and they appear set to get even better in 2025. With Shohei Ohtani returning back to the starting rotation

The Los Angeles Dodgers have been on an unprecedented stretch that dates back to last offseason when they signed Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu ... went on to win the World Series, which has been ...

Roberts appeared on MLB Network Radio over the weekend, where naturally the subject of the Dodgers' offseason spending came up. In the face of weeks of criticism over his team's historic accumulation of talent, he had a simple response: You're just jealous.

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.

Reigning World Series champions ... allowing them to keep their top pitchers like Shohei Ohtani, Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow to stay relatively fresh for the playoffs.

Japanese star Roki Sasaki signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers, he announced on Instagram. The 23-year-old right-hander with a sizzling fastball and deadly splitter joins Samurai Japan teammates Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto with the World Series champion Dodgers. The jokes wrote themselves.

Japanese right-hander Roki Sasaki is signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers, he announced Friday on Instagram. Sasaki, 23, was considered to be the best pitcher in the world not already under the employment of an MLB organization.

The primary question concerned the influence of fellow Japanese Dodgers stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu ... World Series championship in his first season playing with the Dodgers. Yamamoto ...