More than 50 Los Angeles Dodgers players, officials and staffers huddled behind a screen and glanced at monitors as the biggest curiosity of the baseball world faced hitters for the first time in major-league spring training.

Dozens of teammates and members of the front office gather to watch the young Japanese right-hander throw his first live batting practice session of the spring

The Los Angeles Dodgers, the richest team in the MLB both literally and figuratively, only got richer this past offseason. The Dodgers secured the services of burgeoning Japanese international Roki Sasaki,