{"id":151277,"date":"2022-12-08T00:47:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T00:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/red-sox-masataka-yoshida-agree-to-5-year-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T00:47:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T00:47:59","slug":"red-sox-masataka-yoshida-agree-to-5-year-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/red-sox-masataka-yoshida-agree-to-5-year-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox, Masataka Yoshida agree to 5-year deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp\" data-behavior=\"date_time\" data-date=\"2022-12-07T23:42:00Z\"><span class=\"time\" data-dateformat=\"time1\" data-showtimezone=\"true\">6:42 PM ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Jeff Passan<span>ESPN <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author-overlay\">Close<\/p>\n<ul>ESPN MLB insider<br \/>Author of &#8220;The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports&#8221;<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Outfielder Masataka Yoshida and the Boston Red Sox agreed on a five-year, $90 million contract Wednesday, sources told ESPN, adding the most productive bat in Japan over the last two seasons to a quickly retooling Red Sox team.<\/p>\n<p>Yoshida, 29, locked in a deal with the Red Sox on the first day he was eligible to sign after the Orix Buffaloes, the reigning Japan Series champion, posted him.  A corner outfielder, Yoshida hit .335\/.447\/.561 with 21 home runs, 80 walks and just 41 strikeouts in 508 plate appearances this year.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Boston agreed to a two-year, $32 million contract with closer Kenley Jansen, bolstering a bullpen that was one of the worst in baseball last season.  Yoshida is expected to have an even greater impact &#8212; and the Red Sox paid a price higher than expected to secure him.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the $90 million due to Yoshida, the team will share a $15.4 million posting fee to the Buffaloes, bringing the total outlay by Boston to $105.4 million.  The posting system allows players under contract with foreign teams to sign with Major League Baseball club, with the MLB team paying a fee based on a percentage of the guaranteed salary.<\/p>\n<p>Yoshida spent seven seasons with Orix, distinguishing himself as one of the best players in Japan.  Over his career, he has batted .326 \/ .419 \/ .538 with just 307 strikeouts in 3.251 plate appearances.  Minnesota Twins leadoff man Luis Arraez was the only player in MLB last year with a lower strikeout rate than Yoshida.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6:42 PM ET Jeff PassanESPN Close ESPN MLB insiderAuthor of &#8220;The Arm: Inside the Billion-Dollar Mystery of the Most Valuable Commodity in Sports&#8221; Outfielder Masataka Yoshida and the Boston Red Sox agreed on a five-year, $90 million contract Wednesday, sources told ESPN, adding the most productive bat in Japan over the last two seasons to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/red-sox-masataka-yoshida-agree-to-5-year-deal\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Red Sox, Masataka Yoshida agree to 5-year deal<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - 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