What should the Dodgers do with Roki Sasaki?
After another subpar outing against the Rangers, Sasaki has become the most fascinating part of a fabulous but otherwise familiar Dodgers team.
Roki Sasaki might not be good. This version of him certainly isn’t. The mercurial Dodgers hurler made his third start of the year on Sunday against the Texas Rangers.
It went poorly. Sasaki walked five and allowed five hits across four innings. Somehow, he avoided a full-blown disaster, surrendering only two earned runs.
His six strikeouts were a career high, but nobody was popping champagne for that accomplishment after the game. Sasaki’s regular-season ERA is now 6. 23 (that’s nine earned runs in 13 innings), a relative improvement compared to the atmospheric 15.
88 ERA he recorded across four spring training outings. His 15. 9% walk rate is the ninth-worst mark among the 128 MLB pitchers who have made at least three starts.
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