Newsflash: The Los Angeles Dodgers are forward.
To be extra particular, the Dodgers are drafted as a pitcher, following the offseason acquisitions of Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki.
Couple that with second-year ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow’s return from harm and Shohei Ohtani’s return to the mound subsequent season, and L.A. figures to have the deepest beginning rotation in Major League Baseball.
Which of the 5 beginning pitchers has the perfect probability of profitable the NL Cy Young Award? Let’s check out the percentages at DraftKings Sportsbook as of January twenty first.
2025 National League Cy Young Award (Dodgers)
Blake Snell: +1000 (wager $10 to win $110 complete)
Tyler Glasnow: +1700 (wager $10 to win $180 complete)
Yoshinobu Yamamoto: +2500 (wager $10 to win $260 complete)
Shohei Ohtani: +3000 (wager $10 to win $310 complete)
Roki Sasaki: +7500 (wager $10 to win $760 complete)
In phrases of all the prediction, Snell is fifth, Glasnow is seventh, Yamamoto is eleventh, Ohtani is nineteenth and Sasaki is twenty eighth.
Snell has gained the award twice and is one in all solely eight pitchers in MLB historical past to win the award in each leagues. He gained the AL model in 2018 with the Tampa Bay Rays and gained the NL model in 2023 with the San Diego Padres.
Glasnow was an All-Star in 2024 with LA, and Ohtani was an All-Star beginning pitcher in 2021 with the Angels.
Ohtani was additionally an All-Star reserve pitcher in 2022 and 2023.
Rōki Sasaki’s finest pitches from the World Baseball Classic
However, the man who has the perfect probability of the Dodgers rotating is the man most within the highlight, and that’s Sasaki.
Here’s what FOX Sports MLB author Rowan Kavner needed to say concerning the 23-year-old Japanese star coming to Major League Baseball earlier than subsequent season:
“Sasaki can activate a radar gun. His fastball clocked over 102 mph in Japan and hit 101.9 on the World Baseball Classic, the place he sat at 100.5 mph and acquired a bevy of whiffs with the his devastating splitter… During his 4 years in NPB, Sasaki posted a strikeout-to-walk ratio of 5.74 – greater than a full strikeout larger than Yamamoto, whose mark is 4.48 was nonetheless ok to make him the best paid pitcher in MLB historical past This stat demonstrates Sasaki’s limitation.
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