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Rintaro Sasaki, a 17-year-old first baseman from Japan, didn’t enter the Nippon Professional Baseball draft and as a substitute intends to play faculty baseball within the United States, a number of stories stated Tuesday.
Sasaki is 6-feet, 250 kilos and recognized for his uncooked energy. He broke the Japanese highschool profession residence run file by bashing 140 lengthy balls.
Sasaki performed for his father at Hanamaki-Higashi High School, the place Shohei Ohtani additionally performed in his teenage years.
According to Baseball America, a Japanese prospect named Rikuu Nishida was chosen within the eleventh spherical of this 12 months’s MLB Draft after spending two years at a junior faculty in Oregon. But Sasaki is a sufficiently big expertise that he’s anticipated to decide to a Division I faculty.
As a world participant, Sasaki just isn’t eligible for a conventional identify, picture and likeness (NIL) deal to earn cash whereas enjoying in faculty.
–Field Level Media