Roki Sasaki

Scout’s note

Roki Sasaki, 24, from Rikuzentakata, has 151 strikeouts in 36 MLB games since his March debut — the fastball plays in Los Angeles the way it played in Japan, and the line already says it.

Note written Oct 12 · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)

A market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s.

2026 salary

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Tax hit

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Service time

2 yr 0 d

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Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Los Angeles Dodgers.

A second set of books

The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of October 12, 2026. We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.

Tax AAV

$0.80M

Guaranteed

$0.80M

Term

1 yr

His class

Pre-Arb

The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.

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