Roberts told reporters.<\/a><\/p>\nSnell is taking his preparation quite slowly in the offseason, focusing on easing himself into the season, rather than rushing and risking an injury.<\/p>\n
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Stone, who went through serious shoulder surgery, had a setback that resulted in him stopping throwing the ball.<\/p>\n
Given the pressure and need for Sasaki to be good as soon as possible, it is encouraging that he is making progress on the mound.<\/p>\n
Roberts was glowing in his remarks about how Sasaki pitched against the minor leaguers, calling the reports of his performance \u201celectric\u201d since he did not watch it in person while managing the team against the D-Backs.<\/p>\n
\u201cCouldn\u2019t have asked for a better day,\u201d he said. \u201cBut still, the split still plays to hitters if it\u2019s on the plate. The fastball, if it\u2019s commanded, still plays.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThere\u2019s still value to getting hitters out and seeing guys swing and miss. We accomplished what we wanted to today, built him up. Obviously built in some confidence. So just go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sasaki\u2019s reaction to his outing<\/p>\n
After a positive session, the righty seemed to pinpoint the main factor in his success.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll about mechanics \u2013 if my mechanics are really good, I think my command is good too,\u201d Sasaki said through an interpreter.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve kept doing the same adjustments I made last time, and also I actually added a few more adjustments in different spots,\u201d Sasaki said through an interpreter. \u201cThey made me move better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Robert showered starting pitcher Roki Sasaki with praise after his B-team outing against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[22,5,114,49,135,51,2565,1523,34819,538,57,37439,4,110],"class_list":["post-617708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-guardians","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-baseball","tag-blake-snell","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-clevelandguardians","tag-gavin-stone","tag-goodyear-ballpark","tag-guardians","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-minor-leaguers","tag-mlb","tag-roki-sasaki"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116207908472618123","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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