Roki Sasaki’s two Cactus League outings for the Los Angeles Dodgers thus far have left a lot to be desired, but he did show signs of improvement on Tuesday against the Cleveland Guardians.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts has been vocal about how impressed he has been with Sasaki’s work behind the scenes in practice. However, that has yet to show up when facing opponents.
Sasaki attributed his hardships in recent years to bad mechanics, and he has been working hard to correct them in camp this year. But it has been a struggle to translate the work he’s put in at practice to the games, according to Bill Plunkett of the Southern California News Group:
“The past few years, actually, my mechanics were really bad.