MLB insider Bob Nightengale is a notorious jinx, so if he's certain that Roki Sasaki will wind up choosing the Los Angeles Dodgers, odds are good he'll wind up anywhere else.

Because Sasaki is so young, he's going to be subject to strict rules when it comes to signing with an MLB team

The Mets were early adopters of NPB starting pitchers. Masato Yoshii was a rotation regular for the 1998 and 1999 Mets. At that point, only Hideo Nomo, Hideki Irabu and (briefly) Shigetoshi Hasegawa had started an MLB game in 35 years.