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How Roki Sasaki Is Turning Into The Pitcher The Dodgers ‘Hoped To Get'

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers believed "The Monster of the Reiwa Era," a title bestowed upon Roki Sasaki after the Japanese phenom broke Shohei Ohtani’s high school velocity record, was still somewhere inside the 24-year-old right-hander, waiting to be unleashed again through the right series of tweaks and adjustments. They were determined to let Sasaki iron out his deficiencies at the big-league level, hoping to reap the rewards once everything clicked into place. After a volatile year trying to help Sasaki rediscover the form that had talent evaluators salivating before his jump to Major League...