⚾ Graded 2025 Topps Bowman Roki Sasaki #GL23 Greatness Loading Rookie RC Baseball Card PSA 10 Gem Mint – The Professional Sports Authenticator PSA 10 Gem Certified 2025 Topps Bowman Greatness Loading Rookie Card of Roki Sasaki, Card Number GL23, “Lord Perfecto,” the Los Angeles Dodgers Right-Handed Pitcher Who Dominated the Nippon Professional Baseball League Before Arriving in Major League Baseball as One of the Most Anticipated International Signings of the Decade

⚾ The nickname “Lord Perfecto” was not invented for marketing purposes – it was earned in the most literal way a pitcher can earn a title: by throwing multiple perfect games in professional baseball. Roki Sasaki threw a perfect game in the Nippon Professional Baseball League in April 2022, extending it beyond the standard nine innings and establishing himself not merely as a top NPB pitcher but as a generational talent whose ceiling the international scouting community began tracking with the full attention of every major league front office. His combination of a mid-to-upper-90s fastball and an elite split-finger fastball gave opposing batters a choice between a pitch moving at maximum velocity and a pitch falling off the table below the strike zone, and neither option was good. The 2025 Topps Bowman Greatness Loading card at number GL23, graded PSA 10 Gem Mint – the highest grade the Professional Sports Authenticator assigns to any trading card – is the Bowman format at condition perfection for the pitcher who arrived in Major League Baseball as one of the most anticipated international signings of the decade. Four perfectly sharp corners, a surface without defect, centering within the PSA tolerance: the Sasaki Bowman RC at its highest achievable standard.

⚾ Roki Sasaki was born on November 3, 2001, in &Omacron;funato, Iwate Prefecture, Japan – a coastal city in the T&omacron;hoku region that was significantly affected by the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, an event that shaped the resilience of an entire community and whose shadow remained part of Sasaki's personal story as he developed into one of the most followed young pitchers in Japanese baseball history. He signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers prior to the 2025 season under the international bonus pool regulations that applied to his age group, joining a Dodgers roster that had also recently added Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in one of the most celebrated international recruiting runs in the history of the franchise. For the collector who wants the first American baseball card of one of the most compelling young pitching talents in the world at PSA 10 Gem Mint, the Greatness Loading GL23 is the definitive piece. Condition: NOS.

⚾ Roki Sasaki. Lord Perfecto. &Omacron;funato, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Chiba Lotte Marines. Los Angeles Dodgers. Pitcher. NPB Perfect Game. 2025 Topps Bowman. Greatness Loading. Card #GL23. PSA 10 Gem Mint. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.