Healthy and stronger, Dodgers’ Roki Sasaki in better position to succeed in 2nd season

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Roki Sasaki was credited with three saves during the Dodgers’ postseason run last October.

But his late-season move to the bullpen might have saved the whole year for him.

“It was really nice for myself to be able to see myself succeed at this level,” Sasaki said through an interpreter Sunday. “It’s a whole different mindset going into this spring training if I didn’t succeed the way I did last postseason.”

Indeed, compared to the hype that surrounded his move to MLB...