LOS ANGELES — He could be the best pitching prospect to ever come from the same Japanese prefecture that produced Shohei Ohtani.
He strikes out an average of 13 batters per nine innings and his fastball approaches 102 mph.
He pitched a perfect game this season and nearly pitched another in his very next start, denied only by his team's inability to score and his manager's decision to remove him after eight unblemished innings.
