NYH
Roki Sasaki, P
Scouting report
Sasaki has a monster arm and frame, and he's a plus athlete. He's been clocked at 101 and usually sits 97 and up. His secondaries are raw but he'll occasionally show an above-average split and average breaking ball. There was a stretch in high school when Sasaki was asked to throw nearly 500 pitches in an eight-day span, including all of a 12-inning complete game in which he also hit the game-winning two-run homer. He was the first pick in the 2019 NPB draft but the risk associated with teenage pitching is universal. He's in the same FV tier as Mick Abel.