The Boston Red Sox agree with Japanese outfielder Masataka Yoshida, 29 years old. The Japanese star became available through the auction system (posting) last week. It’s a five-year pact worth $90MM.
Yoshida Thus, he obtains the highest guarantee of any position player who makes the leap from Japanese professional baseball to the Major Leagues. The record was set by Seiya Suzuki last spring, who signed a five-year, $85 million deal with the Chicago Cubs. It’s perhaps not a coincidence that Yoshida outbids him by a million dollars a year:
It’s a huge gamble for the Red Sox, but they’re prepared to take it and add some much-needed help in the outfield. Yoshida has been one of the best hitters in Japan in recent seasons. He has appeared in NPB for the past seven years and has a career line of .327/.421/.539.
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The 5-foot-1 left-handed hitter has reached base in more than 40% of his plate appearances in each of the past six seasons, and surpassed a 1.000 OPS for the first time in 2022. Yoshida hit .335/.447/ .561 through 508 plate appearances this year.
Raphael Martinez
I am a fan of the King of Sports, especially the Boston Red Sox in MLB and in general all of Mexican baseball. This profession has given me the opportunity to cover big events such as the Caribbean Series, LMB All Star, LMP (uninterrupted since 2009), important players’ signatures. I had the chance to attend the 2013 World Classic in Arizona, USA, albeit as an amateur. Apart from this beautiful sport, I love basketball, where I have also narrated games and even an NBA friendly 10 years ago, but baseball is in my veins. Graduated in Communication Sciences from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS). , from which I graduated in 2011. I was born in Mazatlán, Sinaloa and started in the world of sports journalism in 2004 in the newspaper El Sol de Mazatlán, where I was a baseball columnist and reporter at the same time. In January 2009 I arrived at El Debate as a journalist reporter and it took almost six years (in the first stage), until in November 2014 I emigrated to radio, providing my services at Línea Directa-Grupo RSN. My cycle there ended in July 2019 and a few days later, El Debate gave me another opportunity to work and opened the doors for me again. That is how I came to Al Bat, where I have been since 2019 as a web journalist.
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