Last night, once again, Yoshinobu Yamamoto was excellent.
In seven rounds on the mound against the rangers, the Japanese broke everything. He withdrew 10 guys on sockets and he did not give a point or goal on bullets to opposing strikers.
In a gain of 3-0 and facing a Jacob Degrom which also launched for seven sleeves (what a duel of launchers, anyway), it made the difference for his own.
With Shohei Ohtani who did not start throwing again, with Blake Snell who is injured, with Roki Sasaki who is looking a little and with Clayton Kershaw who is not yet ready, the dodgers are happy to count on Yamamoto.
Its average of 0.93 this season (in 29 work rounds) has something to impress. Among qualified starters, only Chris Bassitt and Drew Rasmussen, two American launchers, are doing better.
The one who has 38 stick withdraws this season has seen his manager saying that he was currently the best launcher in the national.
Dave Roberts said he did not want to lack respect for Paul Skenes (and I would add the names of Hunter Greene or Zack Wheeler in passing), but I believe that the skipper right.
Right now, Yamamoto is untouchable.
Yamamoto is the highest paid launcher in history (if we do not take into account the contract of Shohei Ohtani, who has not launched since 2023) and at the moment, he demonstrates that his $ 325 million contract did not emerge from nowhere.
And it is not the dodgers who will complain.
