As Rintaro Sasaki begins his college baseball career at Stanford with all of Japan watching, he knows there will be growing ...

Danielle Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, has resigned. Her resignation comes after ...

he was asked during the post-signing Zoom meeting whether Stanford freshman Rintaro Sasaki's decision to head to college instead of NPB played a role in his own decision-making process.

Rintaro Sasaki is a teenage phenomenon who aspires to play Major League Baseball. He is a trailblazer embarking upon an unconventional path for a Japanese ball player.

Rintaro Sasaki, a Japanese high school phenom projected to go No. 1 overall in the 2024 NPB draft, skipped NPB entirely and instead committed to Stanford last June. The 19-year-old hit ...

Teenage Japanese slugger Rintaro Sasaki has signed a letter of intent to play college baseball at Stanford, the school announced on Tuesday night. Sasaki had originally announced his intent to ...

When balls start landing on the Stanford football team’s practice grass way beyond the wall in right-center field, everybody knows Japanese slugger Rintaro Sasaki must be taking batting practice ...

HANAMAKI, Iwate Prefecture--Like his idol Shohei Ohtani, Rintaro Sasaki aims to be a two-way great. He wants to excel both on the field and in the classroom at Stanford University in the United ...

Last year, a slugging first baseman named Rintaro Sasaki (no relation to Roki), then the country’s consensus top prospect, made the paradigm-shifting choice to bypass the NPB Draft in favor of ...