The university has announced that Rintaro Sasaki, one of the strongest hitters in high school baseball and a player from Hanamaki Higashi High School in Iwate Prefecture who had expressed his intention to attend a university in the United States without submitting his application for professional baseball, will attend Stanford University in the United States. did.
Sasaki of Hanamaki Higashi High School is a strong hitter who has hit 140 home runs in his entire high school career, and he helped his team advance to the top eight at Koshien last summer.
Nakasasaki, whose career path after graduating from high school has been attracting attention, announced in October of last year, before the draft, that he would not submit his application for professional baseball and would instead attend an American university. "I narrowed it down to about five," he said.
On the 14th, Japan time, the baseball team of Stanford University in the United States announced on their official SNS that Sasaki would be attending Stanford University, saying, ``Japan's top high school baseball player will play at Stanford University.''
We also posted a photo of Sasaki wearing his university uniform with number 3 on his back.
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According to Hanamaki Higashi High School, Sasaki will continue training and studying English after graduating from high school in preparation for admission this September.
Sasaki is expected to make his debut in American college baseball after the season begins in February next year.
Sasaki plans to give interviews in the future and talk about how he decided to attend Stanford University.