A slugging first baseman, Rintaro Sasaki skipped the NPB draft last year and signed to ... Sasaki will be eligible for the ...

The legend of Rintaro Sasaki continued to grow on Saturday. After hitting his first collegiate home run for Stanford, Sasaki crushed a walk-off three-run home run against Duke to trigger the 10-run ...

Expected to be the No. 1 pick in the Nippon Professional Baseball Draft, Sasaki decided to take his talents to Stanford ...

Rintaro Sasaki, the left-handed power hitter who set the Japanese high school home run record (14) while playing at Hanamaki ...

Stanford first baseman Rintaro Sasaki has been the talk of the Cardinal program since he decided to join the team last spring. This year, he made his debut, and while the boom stick hadn't been ...

This popularity has led to some Japanese ballplayers going straight to MLB. Shotaro Morii, 18, and Rintaro Sasaki, 19, "moved ...

Stanford University first baseman Rintaro Sasaki took questions from U.S. reporters without an interpreter after his team won ...

MLB opened with Cubs vs. Dodgers in Japan. Starting pitchers Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Shota Imanaga and Roki Sasaki had different ...

GO DEEPER MLB Draft 2025: Keith Law’s top 30 draft ... Stanford first baseman Rintaro Sasaki is just not very good. The hype he received when he chose to come over to the U.S. rather than ...

If you haven’t heard of Rintaro Sasaki yet ... I considered which ones would be able to maximize my potential," Sasaki told MLB.com via his interpreter. "That, combined with, I really have ...

About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season ... Two young stars — 19-year-old Rintaro Sasaki and 18-year-old Shotaro Morii — have moved directly to American baseball, bypassing NPB ...