Over the Monster · Feb 6, 2025
Red Sox Recipes A-Z: Masa’s Minestrone
I didn’t know exactly how this series would play out when I started it, but it’s been far wackier than I imagined. Today, we get back to business-as-originally-intended, as we talk about Masataka Yoshida and minestrone: a fine, trusty, workaday soup for a fine, trusty, workaday player.
Yoshida is better than you think, because you think he’s bad, and he’s not. He’s not excellent by any means, but if you had an outfield full of players with OPSes between .750 and .800, you could survive. Can he hit lefties? No. But he hits righties pretty good: .300/.351/.459 over his two-year MLB career. Most pitchers, it should be noted, are righties.
