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FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

Leading Off: Has Roki Sasaki Found His Groove? (Ep. 1261)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Baseball Podcast

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4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2026

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Join Joe Pisapia, Chris Welsh and the Peanuts & Cracker Jacks at 12:30 p.m. ET at ⁠⁠⁠⁠twitch.tv/fantasypros⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ every weekday for industry-leading fantasy baseball advice and to have your questions answered on the stream!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:23.5

Guaranteed Human. Welcome in, everybody, to Fantasy Pros MLB. This is leading off live. It's me Joey P. Joe Pizapia. With me, of course, is the Welsh, and it's all of you, the peanuts, the crackerjacks, right here on our Twitch, twitch. Twitch.tvies. That's the place to be to watch us live. And of course, you can watch us on demand on the YouTube channel. Fantasy Bros. MLB, subscribe there, drop your comments, ring the bell, do all that stuff. I don't know about you, Welsh, but that song put me in a really good mood. I see the peanuts and crackerjacks are happy to hear it on the Twitch today. I feel kind of fired up on a Monday.

0:37.7

I had an extra hour of sleep.

0:38.7

Does it show?

0:39.5

Fired up.

0:40.0

You, pretty. and Cracker Jacks are happy to hear it on the Twitch today. I feel kind of fired up on a Monday. I had an extra hour of sleep. Does it show? Fired up. You pretty much tell us right where you're at at the beginning of the show, how caffeinated or slept you are. I'm both. I am both. I am caffeinated at a big ass coffee before the football show this morning. And now I'm ready to talk some baseball.

0:55.4

We got a lot to talk about more injuries.

0:57.5

We got another big starting pitcher going to the IL.

1:00.4

We got the Chicago White Sox who look like they're just world beaters right now.

1:04.2

Another big prospect called up as well.

1:06.6

But let us begin what maybe what I thought possibly was impossible.

1:13.4

Roki Zazaki, consistent.

1:15.5

Let's talk about this.

1:16.6

Yesterday start for Roki Sizaki, eight strikeouts, limiting the Angels to one run, seven innings, got another victory.

1:23.9

Well, it's just a couple starts in a row here for Mr. Sizaki now, where we're starting to feel a little bit of a page turn maybe in his career.

1:31.9

And I think this is fascinating because for those people who bought in, it was a rocky road for Roki.

1:37.5

And that's not easy to say to the beginning of the season.

1:40.9

His ERA is still above five.

1:42.9

The whip is a 1.45 rather. But if you look at the last two starts, all of a sudden things have really started to turn a little bit for him. The efficiency's been there. The strikeouts have been there. The walks have been reduced? So what have you seen out of Roki here? And is it sustainable of these last two starts? Is this the new Roki that we're looking at?

2:01.4

Yeah, this looks like this is like trending in the direction that we want for a guy that we thought.

2:07.0

And I think, you know, smartest people out there, Lance Brasdowski saying this is just a reliever.

2:11.3

The pitch makes change and the way he's covering the zone are starting to look more like a starter.

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