Yamamoto is heading to its second season with Dodgers a year later. Immediately before the 2024 season, a 12 -year deal of $ 325 million signed with the team, which led to high expectations. But in his first appearance in the opening match of the season against San Diego Padris in Seoul, South Korea, he abandoned five runs and was pulled after only one run. With the passage of the season, Yamamoto found his step. Although he dealt with a mid -year injury, he ended up with amazing performance in the game 2 of the World Championship against New York Yanxiz, as it allowed one strike across six and a third of the roles. The evaders helped the championship.
Although a lot of move from Yamamoto from the best Japanese league to MLB, a less discussion was about its amendment with life in the United States, a jug said that the transition was not walking in the garden.
“It was a difficult time, and sometimes I felt that I was still a child and needed all this help around me,” Yamamoto said, adding that it was a period of great turmoil in which everything was new and sometimes felt “uncertain.”
“Thanks to the support system around me, I managed to reach it,” he said.
Nowadays, things are different. Yamamoto is no longer the new child anymore, and in many ways, Roki Sasaki, a Japanese junction colleague with Dodgers in this season after a very competitive free agency, in the same position it was in the past. Yamamoto said he got his back.
Yamamoto said: “Rocky does not necessarily need my guidance or help, because he is really independent, and then works well,” Yamamoto said. “However, I know what it might have, and I know what I have gone through and you need some help along the line. So I will be always available if he needs some help.”
It also goes this year with a little added emotional strength. Yamamoto adopted a shelter dog while he was in the affected list last year, and said he became an important part of his life. He even brought his friend to train spring in Arizona.
“It has become a great mental support and a cure,” said Yamamoto.
While Yamamoto and Dodgers start in another season, his jug said that he is in his mind.
“I was fortunate enough to win the world’s rising world championship. I got a lot of great experiences.” “I will take all these experiences and use it while moving forward, then I try to win another championship in the World Championship.”
