As the calendar turns from April to May, Masataka Yoshida remains something of an afterthought in the world of the Red Sox. As he enters the third season of the five-year, $90 million contract he signed with Boston in December 2022, the 31-year-old remains sidelined by a laborious recovery from labrum surgery and faces an uncertain future with the club when he is fully healthy. While his team has forged a 17-15 record in the early part of the season, Yoshida has had a largely unseen existence in Fort Myers, throwing on the back fields of Fenway South with team trainers and his translator, Yutaro Yamaguchi.
Examining Masataka Yoshida’s injury, slow recovery and murky Red Sox future
