Morning Briefing: Japanese Phenom Rintaro Sasaki Commits to Stanford

Good morning Mets fans!  Rintaro Sasaki, a Japanese high school phenom and the potential No. 1 pick in the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) Draft, officially decided to forego the NPB on Tuesday, signing a national letter of intent to play college baseball with Stanford, the university announced.  Sasaki will graduate from Hanmaki-Higashi High School, the same school Shohei Ohtani attended, in...