{"id":755842,"date":"2026-07-19T11:12:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/755842\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T11:12:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T11:12:27","slug":"rintaro-sasaki-announces-decision-to-sign-with-marlins-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/755842\/","title":{"rendered":"Rintaro Sasaki announces decision to sign with Marlins – MLB Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDuring a press conference<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday in Hanamaki City, Japan,\u00a0Rintaro Sasaki<\/a>\u00a0announced that he will be signing with the Miami Marlins, who selected him in the eighth round of last weekend’s MLB Draft.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSasaki holds Japan’s all-time high school record for home runs. He didn’t quite live up to the hype during his two seasons of college ball. In 106 games, he slashed .265\/.391\/.482 with 23 home runs and one stolen base. That’s only a 96 wRC+ when adjusting for the ACC’s offensive environment.\u00a0He was still selected by the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks in the first round of the NPB Draft last October.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSasaki’s showing at the Draft Combine in June may have helped legitimize him as a prospect. He recorded a maximum exit velocity of 115.4 mph and max distance of 458 feet while using a wood bat.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe speculation is that Sasaki’s bonus with the Marlins will be similar to his draft pick’s slot value of $239,200. He could have earned several multiples of that<\/a> by either going to NPB or staying at Stanford for another season. Instead, the left-handed-hitting first baseman made expediting his journey to the big leagues his top priority.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn finalizing his decision now, Sasaki will be available to participate in the Marlins’ annual draft camp, which takes place this coming week in South Florida.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Marlins have until 5:00 p.m. ET on July 27 to officially sign their draftees. Soon after that, we should be seeing Sasaki make his minor league debut with either Low-A Jupiter or High-A Beloit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During a press conference\u00a0on Sunday in Hanamaki City, Japan,\u00a0Rintaro Sasaki\u00a0announced that he will be signing with the Miami…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[35744,5,2291,58,4,1586,2352,5571],"class_list":["post-755842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-draft","tag-35744","tag-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-draft","tag-miami-marlins","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-draft","tag-npb","tag-rintaro-sasaki"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116946347182304064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}