Port Charlotte, FLA. – Masataka Yoshida will be in quite unusual circumstances to start the 2025 season.
Yoshida, who acted as a designated primary beats of Red Sox and played only one entry into the field outside last year, is healthy enough to hit – and hit well – less than six months withdrawn from the surgery to repair a labrum torn on the right shoulder. But Boston, Want to use Yoshida as a camper with Rafael deters blocked in DH role dailyHe is deciding to wait until he is ready to launch a game before leaving him to play the Great League matches. To this end, Yoshida will begin the year on the list of injuries and has a large number of bat-bats with triple-a world throughout April.
On Saturday, the manager Alex Cora acknowledged that Yoshida will probably spend the first week of the regular season in Fort Myers, and then joins Woosox at Jacksonville during the first triple-A season road trip.
“There is a good opportunity to do it,” Cora said. “He is now up to 100 meters. We need to play the defense. Probably stay here a week, he will go to the house workshop and join Triple-A on April 1. They will be in Jacksonville.”
Yoshida has been playing with team staff in the later fields of Fenway South, but he has not seen any time out of field yet in the action of the game. He remains in the ways to do it, and he did not give it a calendar to take the next step. However, Yoshida continues to affect the games; He hit the second Saturday against the rays in his eleventh spring action game, entering the day after reaching .281 with a Homer, seven Rbis and a .688 Ops.
“Excellent”, Cora said about Yoshida’s bat-bats. “It can be said to be healthy. The finish is different from the last year and a half. It has been passing for a while. He crushed it. If he asks him, there is a reason why he wanted to have surgery. He also signed as a field player.
As the third year of its five -year agreement begins, $ 90 million, Yoshida’s long -term future with the Red Sox is in Limbo. With the devoes rooted as DH after the signing of the third basketball Alex Bregman, there will be not much opportunity for Yoshida to claim this position. He showed his defensive limitations in 88 games as a left camper in 2023 and could have a difficult time to find play time on the grass with Jarren Duran, Ceddanne Rafaela, Wilda Abreu and Rob Refsnyder on the Big League list and the best perspectives Roman Anthony and Kristian Campbell, so much to be called soon.
The Red Sox believe in Yoshida’s bat, still, as Cora called him “one of the best hitters (the team)” the previous week. Against right -wing pitchers, the 31 -year -old has the ability to be a line maker. It remains to be seen exactly how these beaters will achieve, once fully healthy.
For now, however, it is clear that the Red Sox are playing slow in Yoshida to try to preserve the depth and give a decision to the road.
“This is his tolerance,” Cora said. “I’m not sure when it will be in the Games.”
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