NFL
Fantasy
About Us
Dave Roberts announces Roki Sasaki is Dodgers' primary closer for postseason
The Los Angeles Dodgers , with their stacked starting rotation, have plenty of leeway when it comes to who starts in the playoffs. Shohei Ohtani and Blake Snell, along with Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow, make up one of baseball's best rotations.
Other than those four, there's one young pitcher who's come into his own in a new role. Roki Sasaki, after a lackluster rookie year as a starter, cut short due to injury, has come back as a reliever for Los Angeles. In this new role, he's thrived.
With the Dodgers up 2-0 on the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLDS, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts has announced a firm decision regarding Sasaki's role going forward. Roberts reveals that Sasa