The Los Angeles Dodgers may not actually be the favorites to sign 23-year-old Japanese phenom Roki Sasaki in free agency.

The Dodgers are viewed as the favorites to sign Sasaki. But based on his conversations with league sources, Jim Bowden doesn't agree.

Last winter, we wrote about how Major League Baseball's offseason had been dominated by international free agents. At the time, there was two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani; there was highly decorated right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto;