Baseball: Roki Sasaki to go quietly into NPB draft

Flame-throwing high school pitcher Roki Sasaki said Wednesday he had registered for Nippon Professional Baseball's Oct. 17 draft and suggested he would play for any team that drafted him.The announcement at a press conference in Iwate Prefecture will throw cold water on the hopes of major league scouts that Sasaki might move to the majors at a young age through the posting system or snub NPB's draft altogether and sign directly with a big league club."There are 12 (Japanese) teams, and I desire to do my best wherever I go," the 1.90-meter 17-year-old said. "I want to become the kind of play…READ FULL ARTICLE