Career Accolades
- ACC All-Academic Team (2025)
As a Freshman (2025)
- Perfect Game Midseason Freshman All-America second team
- Baseball America Preseason National Freshman of the Year
- D1Baseball Preseason ACC Freshman of the Year
- Baseball America Preseason ACC Freshman of the Year
- Baseball America Preseason Top 25 Freshmen (No. 1)
- Perfect Game Preseason Top 75 Freshmen (No. 3)
- D1Baseball Preseason Top 50 First Basemen (No. 15)
- ACC All-Academic Team
- Started all 52 games, batting .269 with 24 runs scored, eight doubles, seven home runs and 41 RBIs
- Slugged .413 with a .377 on-base percentage and went 1-for-2 in stolen bases
- Compiled 14 multi-hit games and 10 multi-RBI contests, including a pair of four-RBI games
- Hit safely in 35 of his 52 games and reached in all but nine contests after opening his career with a string of 14 straight games reaching safely
- Homered five times and managed three doubles, 13 runs scored and 19 RBIs in ACC play
- First career home run came as part of a two-homer game vs. Duke, including a walk-off three-run homer, to record four RBIs and hand Stanford an 11-1 run-rule victory (March 15)
- Batted .429 with three runs scored, three homers and eight RBIs vs. Duke (March 14-16)
- Strung together a seven-game hit streak from February 23 to March 7
- Drove in four runs and batted 2-for-5 with a pair of runs scored in his collegiate debut at Cal State Fullerton (February 15)
- Went 2-for-3 with a run scored, a double, a home run and three RBIs vs. Notre Dame (April 20)
- Finished 3-for-5 with a double, a home run and two RBIs vs. Grand Canyon (May 10)
- Batted a team-best .378 with six runs scored, two doubles and 11 RBIs while posting a .477 on-base percentage in the month of February
- Connected for four home runs while scoring six runs and driving in 14 during the month of March
- Scored eight runs and collected four doubles, two homers and 10 RBIs in May
Prior to Stanford
- 2024 graduate of Hanamaki Higashi High School in Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan
- Joined the Stanford baseball program in March 2024 after completing his high school career, but did not play in games for the Cardinal
- Helped his team to a semifinal and quarterfinal finish at the national tournament during his high school career
- Set the Japanese high school record with 140 career home runs
Personal
- Son of Reika and Hiroshi Sasaki
- Father, Hiroshi, is the head baseball coach at Hanamaki Higashi High School which has produced MLB stars Shohei Ohtani and Yusei Kikuchi
- Has one sister, Shu