Red Sox sign Masataka Yoshida
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OH HELL YES.
I've been expecting us to be in on everybody without a QO attached, so this is goddamn rad in my book.
I've been expecting us to be in on everybody without a QO attached, so this is goddamn rad in my book.
I know Suzuki was really hyped last year, haven't dived into this guy yet as his posting period just started. Will have to do it now!
EDIT: Leadoff profile? NPB league but this is promising...
View: https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1600634631472021506
EDIT: Leadoff profile? NPB league but this is promising...
View: https://twitter.com/JeffPassan/status/1600634631472021506
4 time all-star, 2 time batting champion, HRD winner in the Nippon league.
Seems good if numbers translate
He seems 50% Mueller and 50% Ortiz.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221027/p2g/00m/0sp/067000c
Instantly becomes our best OF'er
Seems good if numbers translate
He seems 50% Mueller and 50% Ortiz.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20221027/p2g/00m/0sp/067000c
Instantly becomes our best OF'er
Hi, I know he walks a lot, but does anybody know how is his fielding and would he play right or left field? Thanks in advance for any info.
I’m fascinated but a little nervous how this turns out at that price and length. But I’m sure they’ve done their research. A Luis Arraez-type hitter would look great on the Sox.
Out of nowhere! Crazy.
I don’t know anything about him but the BB/K skills should translate- not as awesomely as that…. But probably better than anyone right now on the Sox
I don’t know anything about him but the BB/K skills should translate- not as awesomely as that…. But probably better than anyone right now on the Sox
Can we stop with this. It was perfectly legitimate to question their recent spending habits.
I’ll try to find it but some of the big NPB writers were discussing the Japanese FAs on a YouTube video or podcast I was listening to in like October and said that Yoshida is a much better hitter than Suzuki. Smaller with less raw power and not as athletic. Also not very good defensively.
I’m guessing Yoshida plays LF and Verdugo moved to RF? Don’t love that defensively but this is the type of move you love to see. They’re obviously confident in this guy.
Some highlights:
https://www.reddit.com/r/NPB/comments/yiqyg9/masataka_yoshidas_2022_regular_season_and/
He will be 30 next July. He is 5’8” tall, so he will join (perhaps) Verdugo in the Red Sox OF as small-ish OFs.
Career .326 average and .956 OPS in the JPPL/JPWL with the Orix Buffaloes the entire time.
Let’s go.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NPB/comments/yiqyg9/masataka_yoshidas_2022_regular_season_and/
He will be 30 next July. He is 5’8” tall, so he will join (perhaps) Verdugo in the Red Sox OF as small-ish OFs.
Career .326 average and .956 OPS in the JPPL/JPWL with the Orix Buffaloes the entire time.
Let’s go.
This guy also walks, right? Arraez doesn’t walk. Yoshida profiles as a really good (better than Hernandez) top of the order bat.
He seems to be LF only. But he's elite offensively, with superior bat-to-ball and OBP skills, and he'll benefit from the shift ban. Pretty excited to see him.
Looks like he will be our lead- off hitter we desperately needed. 2 good moves by the Red Sox today.
Very cool! I love moves like this. The excitement around Dice K was on another level but this is still really fun. Hope he rocks.
While I agree the joke has been played out, I also agree that those "questioning their recent spending habits" were not doing so based on any real evidence.
Sounds like a guy who consistently puts up great at bats, doesn’t get himself out, and barrels like crazy. Exciting profile if he can carry it over.
In Japan, he's a .300/.400/.500 type. His K rate could spike 50% still be one of the lowest in the big leagues.
Watching his highlights on Youtube, he seems like a guy who will really be tough to defend in that he seems to spray hard contact from foul pole to foul pole, while his flyballs are mostly pulled. He's probably not hitting a ton of balls out to RF at Fenway, but would be a power menace in NYS and Camden.
Watching his highlights on Youtube, he seems like a guy who will really be tough to defend in that he seems to spray hard contact from foul pole to foul pole, while his flyballs are mostly pulled. He's probably not hitting a ton of balls out to RF at Fenway, but would be a power menace in NYS and Camden.
View: https://twitter.com/jonmorosi/status/1600637640205750273?s=46&t=XZPkFvk631IG_asZTygz0A
On new #RedSox outfielder Masataka Yoshida, Team Japan manager Hideki Kuriyama told me, “He has a talent to hit . . . He could hit for distance. He can hit for contact. He can adjust. He has a smaller build but the ability and talent to do anything.” @MLBNetwork @MLB
On new #RedSox outfielder Masataka Yoshida, Team Japan manager Hideki Kuriyama told me, “He has a talent to hit . . . He could hit for distance. He can hit for contact. He can adjust. He has a smaller build but the ability and talent to do anything.” @MLBNetwork @MLB
Any reports on speed? Limits on pickoffs and new bases sizes make stealing more attractive.
Seems like the perfect fit for the leadoff spot. If anything, an intriguing player to follow next season.
I think that trade is going to happen as more power and better RF defense would help.
OMG OMG OMG!!! I don't know about "ha they aren't cheap" or whatever, but this does emphasize the point that they keep a pretty severe lid on leaks these days, so we really know nothing until we know it.
Great move. The OF discussions we have had for a couple months now were all kind of depressing, either because of the player or the price or both. Whether Yoshida can hit ML pitching is a large question mark, but at least the risk is just money.
Great move. The OF discussions we have had for a couple months now were all kind of depressing, either because of the player or the price or both. Whether Yoshida can hit ML pitching is a large question mark, but at least the risk is just money.
no, no it wasn’t
and now that they have signed an OF and a pitcher, expect noise about a catcher and a SS, it never ends here.
It was perfectly legitimate to question what they were spending on, not whether they would spend.
I wasn’t a Conforto fan but the advantage of Nimmo was you’d still have a really good OBP guy out of the lead-off spot but you’d also get another elite CFer who could push Kiké to RF.
But the fact that the Sox identified Yoshida as one of their guys and really paid up to get him has me dreaming of a potential Matsui like impact.