"We're going to do whatever we can, and know that there are a lot of other teams that are going to do the exact same thing," Friedman said.

Joel Wolfe, Roki Sasaki's agent, said that the phenom may prefer a small- or mid-market team over a team like the Dodgers or Yankees.

Just hours after Roki Sasaki’s agent, Joel Wolfe, did a tell-all about his client at the Winter Meetings in Dallas, Texas, Los Angeles Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman called the 23-year-old international free agent a “major priority” for the team.