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Ramos converted his own score and now it was a 14-point game and, effectively, a done deal.

“I heard some rumblings about a done deal with the Dodgers — you know, having a plan for him,” former Cy Young Award winner Dallas Keuchel, a teammate of Sasaki’s in Japan last season, told the New York Post in November.

"She was very sympathetic, and I think she'd like to do something about it, however the matter is now with the Treasury and we're waiting for their approval which I hope we'll get, but it's not a done deal, so the more pressure we put on the government to end this injustice the better," he said.

It was a done deal at that point.

Not all of Viera Rosa’s bosses treated his departure as a done deal.