2024 Red Sox in Review: Masataka Yoshida

Photo by Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images2024 In One Sentence

While he was a Chaim Bloom signing and not added under the current administration, an “outfielder” who plays exactly one inning in the outfield over a season while hitting .280/.349/.415 is an odd player.

I don’t know? He bathed, now he’s roaming the ship. He must be the only engineer in Starfleet who doesn’t GO TO ENGINEERING! -B’Etor, Star Trek Generations

The Positives

Ok, bear with me: Masa was better in 2024 than 2023. That’s definitely couched with a number of conditions: he wasn’t available in the outfield when the team needed more players, he only played 108 games vs 140 in 2023, and we don’t know if he can…