YouTube Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire, and now the baseball world has been set ablaze after the news that Japanese superstar pitcher Roki Sasaki would be posted by the Chiba Lotte Marines.

Roki Sasaki, the Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher who turned heads during the World Baseball Classic in 2023 with his unreal abilities with his native Japan, will be posted, per the Marines. That means a team will pay the Japanese franchise money for the right to sign Sasaki — like the Dodgers did with Yoshinobu Yamamoto — and also pay Sasaki.

Sasaki, 23, is the No. 3 ranked player on The Athletic's top 40 MLB free agent big board, behind only Juan Soto and Corbin Burnes.