Japanese high school baseball prospect to play college ball in U.S. – AsAmNews

Rintaro Sasaki, an amazing Japanese high school baseball prospect, has actually determined to play college baseball in the U.S. as opposed to getting the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) draft, ESPN records.

Sasaki, 17, will certainly be qualified to get in the Major League Baseball draft after his junior year of college, CBS Sports records. According to ESPN, there are reports that he prepares to indicator with Vanderbilt University.

The young adult presently participates in Hanamaki-Higashi High School, the previous high school of among MLB’s greatest celebrities,Shohei Ohtani The 6-foot, 250-pound professional athlete is presently a very first baseman for his high school group, ESPN records.

CBS Sports author R. J. Anderson explained Sasaki as having “near-elite raw power.” He included that Sasaki apparently homered 140 times throughout his prep job.

Peter Flaherty, a press reporter for Baseball America, wrote this regarding Sasaki’s design of …