A little more than a decade ago, a pitcher by the name of R.A. Dickey threw a kind of knuckleball that baseball had essentially never seen. Now Roki Sasaki might be taking it a step further. Rather than sitting in the 60s or low 70s,

The Roki Sasaki splitter is here, and it might be even nastier than we thought. Sasaki was all-around electric in his Dodgers Spring Training debut Tuesday night, but his splitter was the star of the show.

Tadahito Iguchi, who was Sasaki’s manager for the pitcher’s first three seasons in the Japan Pacific League from 2021-23, believes he will continue to improve.