acclimate

“If you’ve been somewhere for a year, you get more comfortable, you get more acclimated. And when you have success, you gain confidence.”

People have largely acclimated to their presence, he said.

It is home to longtime Korean immigrants and their offspring, but also more recently acclimated Bangladeshis, Central Americans and Oaxacans.

He is under team control for six seasons at a bargain rate, and the Dodgers are perfectly willing to allow him the space and time to become acclimated.

As a result, the challenge for this season, at least, was how Sasaki could keep improving the finer details of his game while acclimating to an immediate transition from Japan to the big leagues.