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On this week’s Hot Sheet Show, J.J. Cooper, Ben Badler, Geoff Pontes and Scout Braun welcome Orioles prospect Coby Mayo. We also dive into new Dodgers phenom Roki Sasaki’s comparison to Shohei ...

A year ago, I used some of the under-the-hood data we now have on college players to explore fastball quality for top college starters in the 2024 class. It was a fun, and hopefully informative ...

Roki Sasaki is the headliner of the Dodgers’ 2025 international signing class, but the team made history with the signing of another pitcher. The Dodgers signed 17-year-old righthander Joseph ...

Popularized by the likes of Reggie Jackson, Deion Sander, Bo Jackson and others, a two-sport college career can generate significant acclaim. In the NIL era with athletes being paid to play, it ...

In the first of 30 organizational deep dives, Carlos Collazo and J.J. Cooper take an in-depth look at the Atlanta Braves farm system. They look at what the Braves have produced lately, why they ...

At the end of a mid-January bullpen session, righthander David Sandlin casually pumped a 101 mph four-seam fastball as he concluded his session. Huge velocity is certainly a head-turning aspect ...

During his 14 years as a pro, including four big league stints, Justin Lehr lived many of the different experiences a pitcher can have. His career, however, predated the game’s data revolution ...

The defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers landed Japanese righthander Roki Sasaki on Friday night, providing an extreme example of the rich getting richer. But there’s also another ...

No two players are exactly alike. At the same time, the similarities between Roki Sasaki and Shohei Ohtani as pitchers at the same age are striking. Ohtani was 23 years old when he moved from ...

After nearly a month and a half, the Dodgers got their man when Japanese sensation Roki Sasaki announced on Instagram that he’d be joining Los Angeles. To do so, the Dodgers had to make a few ...

On Jan. 17, shortly after Roki Sasaki announced he was signing with the Dodgers, the team completed a trade with the Phillies for international pool money. In exchange, Philadelphia received ...