YouTube Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire, and now the baseball world has been set ablaze after the news that Japanese superstar pitcher Roki Sasaki would be posted by the Chiba Lotte Marines.

Roki Sasaki, the Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher who turned heads during the World Baseball Classic in 2023 with his unreal abilities with his native Japan, will be posted, per the Marines. That means a team will pay the Japanese franchise money for the right to sign Sasaki — like the Dodgers did with Yoshinobu Yamamoto — and also pay Sasaki.

Over the weekend, an announcement that Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki will be posted by his current team, the Chiba Lotte Marines to come to the MLB in 2025, put a top pitcher out there that some team will get at a real bargain price.