Rintaro Sasaki profile | Japanese teen baseball star bound for US college ball

Video via CNN Newsource & Reporter Hanako Montgomery.

Teenage Japanese slugger Rintaro Sasaki is following in Shohei Ohtani's footsteps in a way that's very close to home.

Ohtani's high school coach is Sasaki's dad. Sasaki himself is taking a different path to the United States from Ohtani, however, as he has signed a letter of intent to play college baseball with Stanford University.

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