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Story summary
- Rintaro Sasaki announced he will sign with the Miami Marlins, breaking down and saying his desire to test himself in the U.S. outweighed staying in Japan.
- He was taken by the Marlins in the MLB draft’s eighth round and by the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in the NPB draft’s first round.
- He holds Japan’s high-school home-run record (140) and, as a Stanford sophomore, posted a .262 average with 16 homers.
