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Japanese Prospect Sasaki Chooses Marlins Over NPB First Pick Sasaki thanks former teams, embraces MLB challenge after ...

The Hanamaki Higashi High School home run king and the Stanford slugger, Rintaro Sasaki, has decided to sign with the Miami Marlins. The Marlins selected Sasaki in the 8th round of the 2026 MLB Draft.

Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) was created in 1949 and is the highest level of baseball in Japan. NPB has produced some of the top players in MLB, like Ichiro Suzuki and Shohei Ohtani. Let's look ...

TOKYO — Twenty minutes from the Tokyo Dome sits another of Japan’s most revered ballparks, the 99-year-old Meiji Jingu Stadium, one of the few fields still in use anywhere that can claim Babe Ruth as ...

That title belongs to first baseman Rintaro Sasaki, who played two seasons of college baseball at Stanford.  The Japanese ...

Get ready, MLB fans and fantasy managers. There’s a trio of new high-profile NPB stars ready to take on the sport’s top league in 2026: Tatsuya Imai, a high-strikeout starting pitcher coming off a ...

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TOKYO — At a time when premier Japanese baseball players are coming to the U.S. more frequently, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said Monday he does not expect Japan’s top league, ...

A Japanese high school baseball phenom is choosing to play college ball in the United States rather than playing in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Rintaro Sasaki, who holds the Japanese high ...

The Atlanta Braves used their first-round draft pick on a right-handed pitcher out of high school in 2018. At the time, he was committed to Mississippi State to play college baseball. Carter Stewart, ...