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Roki Sasaki

Roki Sasaki — 5-5, 4.42 ERA. The model's read on his matchups, graded in the open.

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Season line · ERA
4.42
5-5 · 114 K, 1.30 WHIP
Games graded
22
this season, box-score final
Roki Sasaki
PBats RThrows RLos Angeles Dodgers

Season line

22 starts, 5-5, 4.42 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 116.0 innings. He's struck out 114 over that span, against 46 walks. This is the baseline the matchup adjusts from — the model starts here and then asks what the specific lineup he's facing does to strikeout arms, how the park plays, and how deep he's likely to go.

He throws right-handed

Roki throws right-handed, which is the ordinary case and means fewer wild swings in the lineup he faces. Opposing managers aren't restacking against him the way they would a left-hander, so his projection moves more on the quality of the lineup than on its handedness. What does move it: how deep he's been going lately, and whether the lineup in front of him strikes out.

His last 5 starts

Roki has 29 strikeouts in 29.3 innings across his last 5 starts, a 8.9 K/9, with a 2.76 ERA over that stretch and 12 walks. Strikeouts are the one pitcher market where our model has found real, graded room — projected workload and the specific lineup he draws move that number more than a season-long rate does. Start-by-start detail is in the log below.

Strikeouts and control

Roki has 114 strikeouts and 46 walks in 116.0 innings this season — 8.8 K/9 against 3.6 BB/9, a 2.5-to-1 ratio. That's around league-typical control — enough to work deep when the lineup cooperates, not enough to bail him out of a bad matchup.

What his floor looks like

Roki has made 22 starts this season, averaging 5.3 innings with a 4.42 ERA across them. In the 12 starts we hold detailed lines for, he got through five or more innings 9 times. That ratio is the honest read on his floor, and it's what separates an arm worth projecting on the outs board from one whose good starts are unpredictable enough that the market prices them better than we do.

How long he goes

Roki is averaging 5.5 innings a start across his last 8 outings, with a high of 7.0 and about 91 pitches a night. He's not going deep, and that caps the strikeout and outs projections no matter how good the matchup looks — you can't strike out hitters you don't face. Expected batters faced is one of the bigger inputs to his score for exactly this reason.

His best start in the log

Roki's high-water mark was Friday, June 5, 2026 against LAA: 10 strikeouts over 7.0 innings, 0 earned runs. One start doesn't set a projection — the model works off the blend of his recent work against the specific lineup in front of him — but it does show the ceiling when the matchup lines up.

How the model reads him

The number on Roki is about tonight, not about him. Strip out the name and the model is asking one question: what does this specific lineup do to this kind of arm, in this park, for as many batters as he's likely to face? That gets scored against every other starter on the slate. The combination math is proprietary and re-tuned every week. The grading isn't — it's all public, including the misses.

What we'd flag

Books don't price every player — coverage tops out around 87% even for confirmed starters, so "no line" here usually means no book posted one rather than a gap in our data. Lineups change late, and an afternoon projection can be stale by first pitch. And the model is tuned across hundreds of graded outcomes, so one game tells you nothing about whether it's working.

Recent game log

DateOppIPKHERBB
Wednesday, August 19@ COL5.06721
Thursday, August 13vs MIL6.02425
Friday, August 7@ AZ6.05421
Thursday, July 30vs SEA5.37523
Friday, July 24@ NYM7.09312
Friday, July 17@ NYY5.75501
Wednesday, July 8vs COL6.05431
Thursday, July 2vs SD3.03762
Friday, June 26@ SD4.02335
Friday, June 19vs BAL5.76431
Friday, June 12@ CWS4.34773
Friday, June 5vs LAA7.010202

Roki Sasaki — FAQ

How has Roki Sasaki been pitching lately?

Over his last 5 starts, Roki has 29 strikeouts in 29.3 innings, allowing 9 earned runs. Start-by-start detail is in the log on this page.

Are Roki Sasaki's projections betting advice?

No. Every number on this page is a research signal from a statistical model, published alongside its graded record so you can judge it yourself. The model is re-tuned weekly and can be wrong on any given day. Nothing here is a guaranteed outcome. 21+, please play responsibly (1-800-GAMBLER).

Projections are a research signal from our model, graded against real box-score results — not betting advice. 21+, please play responsibly (1-800-GAMBLER).