The Los Angeles Dodgers are the favorites to land former Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher Roki Sasaki after he was posted by the Chiba Lotte Marines this of

Shohei Ohtani is in the early stages of rehabbing from arthroscopic surgery to repair a labrum tear in his left shoulder following the Los Angeles Dodgers' World Series championship over the New York Yankees last month.

Ohtani and former Los Angeles Angels teammate Mike Trout are the only active players to have won the award at least three times.