The New York Yankees learned on January 13 that they would not be signing superstar Japanese phenom pitcher Roki Sasaki. In the wake of the Yankees learning th

In a way, the financial aspect is even rosier than that (from the Dodgers' perspective), as typically with a prospect of this caliber, a team might feel pressure to sign him to an early extension. With Sasaki, there's no such pressure: Any talk of an extension now would be viewed as circumventing the transfer rules. It's almost too good to be true.