Wednesday marks the open of MLB's 2025 international signing period, one of two ways major-league teams acquire amateur talent each year. The annual July draft covers players born in the United States,

With the baseball world ablaze with anticipation for where Roki Sasaki will go for his first MLB contract, international prospects as a whole are gettting a light shined on them. MLB prospect analysts Sam Dykstra,

Roki Sasaki may be available for all teams to sign considering that his age only makes him subject to the international bonus pool money similar to when Shohei Ohtani made the transition stateside back in 2018,

Even before the Los Angeles Dodgers had a second in-person meeting with Roki Sasaki on Jan. 14, they dropped some not-so-subtle hints that they were very confident they would be able to sign him. Over the weekend,