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Rintaro Sasaki Spots in Japan
Rintaro Sasaki is a powerful infielder from Hanamaki Higashi High School who recorded 140 home runs in his high school career, and he is currently a Japanese baseball player belonging to Stanford University in the United States.
He was born on April 18, 2005, in Kitakami City, Iwate Prefecture.
He is a right-handed thrower and left-handed batter, standing about 184 cm tall and weighing over 110 kg.
At Hanamaki Higashi High School, he joined the bench as early as the spring of his first year and gained attention as a slugger, hitting a total of 140 home runs by the summer of his third year.
After graduating from high school, he enrolled at Stanford University and became the first Japanese player to play for the prestigious baseball program.
In the 2025 Nippon Professional Baseball draft, he was selected in the first round by both the Yokohama DeNA BayStars and the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, with SoftBank winning the negotiation rights by lottery.
