MLB · DH · Boston Red Sox
Masataka Yoshida
B/T L/R · 5' 8" · 192 lb · born Fukui, Japan · age 33 · played DH 65, LF 7 · MLB debut 2023-03-30
297 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Masataka Yoshida is a 33-year-old left-handed hitter out of Fukui, Japan, in his third year as Boston's DH. His career .280 average with only 190 strikeouts across 390 games is the whole story: he puts the ball in play.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
Where he stands
throughAgainst the 406 qualified major-league hitters — 100+ balls in play this season, the same field the boards are chosen out of. Right is better on every row.
- EV95105.243
- Deserved (xVal)0.33527
- Got (aVal)0.32525
- Luck gap (park-adjusted)flipped-0.00754
today · 30 days ago, against the 375 men who qualified then · the tick is the midpoint · the number at the right is the percentile, the number beside it the measurement itself.
What he’s paid
ArbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $18.60M
- Tax hit
- $18.00M
- Service time
- 4 yr 0 d
- Guaranteed
- $90M
The deal 5 years $90M (2023–2027) — $18.0M a year on average, worked out by us rather than stated on the sheet, and not the same thing as the tax hit above
On the sheet: 5 y/$90M (23-27) · agent Boras Corp. · 3 / 3 options left
After this season, as the sheet has it
| Season | 2028 |
|---|---|
| Cash | Free agent |
| Tax hit | — |
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Boston Red Sox.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $18.0M
- Guaranteed
- $90.0M
- Term
- 5 yrs
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 |
|---|---|---|
| Salary | $18.0M | $18.0M |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
Two sources, read a month apart, put this guarantee at the same dollar. That is the check, and it passed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
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Umpire favor
-0.9 net runs over 27 graded games — the zone cost the umpire more than it gave, on balance.
The line
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