"Back in January, the Dodgers' acquisition of the Japanese phenom felt like a coup," Jack Harris wrote for the Los Angeles Times. "The reality, to this point, has been nowhere near the expectation." Sasaki might have once seemed like a critical addition to a pitching staff that the Dodgers' thought would carry them to the World Series.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have many injuries in their pitching staff this season, but they recently received a positive update on Roki Sasaki.