Everything to Know About Masataka Yoshida

[@ek9385]

After watching the WBC, I would say yes he is worth it.

[@wegotice]

Future Red Sox legend

[@仲川テレシタ]

Yoshida masataka great🎉❤

[@samelwood7556]

i was at the game he hit his first home run

[@alexcohen2203]

Love the Vogelbach cameo 😂😂

[@tylersmart5474]

Power Pros music? Common Jolly W

[@kylekishimoto9150]

As a Buffaloes fan, I'm sad that we're losing our best hitter but also excited to be able to watch him without staying up until 3 in the morning!

[@Gabriel-uu9tv]

Are you stateside?

[@kylekishimoto9150]

@@Gabriel-uu9tv yes, I've lived in the US my whole life

[@Gabriel-uu9tv]

That's crazy bro!!!! I've never met someone who' wlatches the NPB. How's the quality/speed of the game?

[@adamgrant6352]

Please give Raffy and extension because if two fan faivorts are gone

[@kylekishimoto9150]

@@Gabriel-uu9tv it's the most comparable league on the planet to MLB in terms of talent level

[@alaskaguyd963]

He just hit a 485 foot bomb in spring training. He's got some pop.

[@hayate6462]

I'm so happy that you guys already know Japanese players even though they haven't played in mlb.

[@al1976-v7m]

Like his swing

[@MrListen2meplez]

He resembles Brian Giles skills, and performance…👍

[@viberonin]

being a sox fan this offseason was hard to watch..... yoshida is that little glimmer of hope

[@julianmaldonado9296]

Nice music selection. 2008 MLB Power Pros

[@gsy971]

kinda reminds of seiya suzuki. i really wish these guys would be able to come over earlier in their career rather than later.

[@Mannymei7]

Jolly , as a Red Sox fan, I’m trusting u on this one 🤞

[@JDCimo1]

Suzuki had a cannon: throws out Daniel Vogelbach 😂

[@al1976-v7m]

Haha good comment

[@bleacherboysmedia]

Great vid as always Jolly. Your videos were the inspiration for our “deep dive” concept videos. We put out a “who is Masataka Yoshida” video a couple weeks ago but now watching yours, we still have a ways to go lol. Keep up the great work maybe one day ours will reach your level!

[@EnjoyerofYoutube]

you guys are great too though!

[@AlexandUmaruBoswell]

MLB Power Pros 2007 is such a good choice! Sox ownership have to do a lot to make up losing X for us reportedly going 7 years with Senga too (WOW).

[@pokeman6543]

Already hit a grandslam rookie year says it all 😊

[@justkallmekai]

MLB power pros music! Legend

[@SONICX1027]

As a Red Sox fan, yeah I’m excited for Yoshida but losing Bogaerts definitely hurts. I really hope that this team and the front office finds a way to make the product on the field amazing and competitive for championships every year

[@webslinger48]

Lefty with great hand-eye that walks more than he K's and barrels the ball regularly and won a home run derby. This description fits Yoshida and Barrry Bonds!!!!

[@HBTSO]

He’s an absolute monster I can’t believe there’s guys like him out in Japan until they’re 30 🤯

[@user-zm7vh1wo5r]

頑張れ正尚！ 日本から応援してます！

[@PHXNKVHXLIC]

As a Red Sox fan, I’m still crying and vomiting at the same time over losing Xander, I was at his debut game years ago

[@TheShachattack13]

The padres giving an 11 year contract to a 30 year old SS whose numbers have declined the last few years is by far the worst overpay of the offseason. The Red Sox are better off moving story over to short and using the money that would’ve gone to bogaerts to fill other needs

[@adamgomes538]

I'm questioning Chaim Bloom. Just throws shit at a wall. Why is reese Mcguire our catcher? Nice to have a creep behind the dish.

[@Ninjersey1]

@@TheShachattack13it’s not your money who cares lol baseball owners don’t care about going over the cap

[@xJllillillilli]

Damn that’s tuff

[@ARMTOAST]

@@TheShachattack13 “his numbers have declined the past few years” he just put up his best OPS+ since 2019, had his best defensive season of his career by far, and got 9th in MVP votes. you’re smoking crack

[@artuodeetuo9923]

its the mlb power probs sound track in the back for me

[@GenF91]

Hopefully he’ll be good for the Red Sox.

[@dre32pitt]

Great info for next season! You do good work sir.. I do have one small piece of criticism.. You said Yoshida (who will undoubtedly be called Yoshi) had the best SO-to-BB ratio you've seen on BB Reference.. Have you not seen Bonds' page on BB Reference? He posted nearly a 6:1 SO-to-BB ratio in 04.. and 02 & 03 are also better than Yoshida's

[@codymartin8252]

Yea that's a pretty big stat to miss.

[@dre32pitt]

@@codymartin8252 Yea.. It's the "ever" he threw on the end of his statement.. call me pedantic, but perhaps "in recent memory" would've been a better choice.. I know my boy Foolish Baseball wouldn't have made that mistake.. He's the "gold standard" in this form of baseball KZbin.

[@CharmCityGamer]

Ah yes, the new Japanese phenom. Thanks Jolly!

[@bulldog3_42]

What will suck for Yoshida is that to no fault of his own he’s going to be compared to bogarts and that’s going to be hard to match

[@matthewwall8110]

I don’t think he will be compared to bogarts. He doesn’t even play that position

[@matthewwall8110]

He appears to me more of a replacement for JD. Dude is solid DH it seems so I’d assume he would get compared to him more.

[@jordanrhodes929]

Only idiotic Red Sox fans would compare the 2. Yoshida deserves his own chance to do some good for the team, it’s not like we paid him 11 years 280 so what’s to compare

[@tesla3695]

@@matthewwall8110 nah yoshida will be more of a table setter. jd was a table clearer.

[@JayMac]

Why? They dont play the same position and he would lead off. So wtf you even talking about lmao

[@Archemist03]

Please keep using the mlb power pros music it brings me joy

[@TheJacobBlais]

Xander shall be missed. Honestly most of these deals have pissed me off recently

[@TwenOalley]

hopefully marcelo mayer pans out, he's the main reason they didn't want to commit to 10 years of X imo.

[@burnslate]

0:18 45 days, 0:45 largest contract for POSITION player, otherwise it's Tanaka

[@randomnessopy]

bro's got 100 million dollar hair for sure

[@nanashi2-anonym2]

As an Orix fan, I was honestly surprised about the offer. I wasn’t ready for this amount either Masataka was. I’m more scared than happy. I hope Red Sox fans won’t hate him because of Xander’s departure.

[@TheCybercoco]

All Red Sox fans can say is please don't be another Rusney Castillo.

[@nanashi2-anonym2]

@@TheCybercoco not very familiar with MLB, just getting into it… I imagine he got a good wage with a poor result ? Anyways please don’t blame Masataka for the money… he wanted to go the mlb since he was a kid, he would have gone with the quarter of the current contract.. he’s our treasure he was there during the darkest time of the team and led it to the nippon series, for the first time since 1996, when ichiro was in Japan.

[@kyle6386]

Red sox fans morale/expectation is so low right now so yoshida being decent at most in his mlb rookie season is gonna be alright for the fans.

[@warlordop713]

@@nanashi2-anonym2 Red Sox are a super franchise money isn’t the issue. Red Sox are as valuable as the Yankees. They just don’t have a good front office at the moment.

[@nanashi2-anonym2]

@@kyle6386 this relieves me a little bit thank you

[@Wpbec]

Blitzball legend, Jolly Olive

[@Dudeman9339]

He’s literally ichiro without speed. Same swing. Same ability to direct the ball with his bat. If Yoshi were 5’10 he’d be the best player on the planet.

[@loudone6734]

I swear Japanese players have some of the nicest swings 🔥

[@wadeboggs5163]

I agree, I see some Hideki Matsui in his swing too

[@jonesp9130]

Jolly the HOMERUN HITTA

[@nicholasferrara333]

The MLB power pros music🥺

[@yankeessucky2z]

As a Sox fan, it bothers me how the fans are so upset over Xander. He is over 30 and his contract runs until hes over 40! He is not worth that much money, especially when the Sox have elite middle infield talent in the farm. Not to mention they drafted Marcelo Mayer, who will be our everyday shortstop for the next decade. Xander couldve given us a hometown discount, like many other players before him, who actually wanted to finish their careers in Boston. Sox need Starting Pitching ASAP

[@andrewtaylor1492]

You should bring back the “mlb players you forgot about” series

[@Noseyy]

Dope video

[@nacoran]

You need to look at some older stats... Wade Boggs, 1988, 125 BB vs. 34 SOs. George Brett, in 1980, only had 58 walks (but a .390 batting average), but only had 22 SOs against 24 HRs. He also had 9 triples, down from the 20 he had the year before. Of course, if you could sign someone who could be a Wade Boggs or George Brett, you could do worse. :)

[@zlibbus4144]

I need the update on him:)

[@adamgrant6352]

There meeting Kodi senna as well

[@dramatyst5661]

Getting yoshida made up for losing bogey . This kid can fucking hit. His swing is so fucking pretty it makes my wife jealous

[@タブレット-g4d]

yoahida is real

[@matthewvanzandt6589]

Bro I’m literally playing power pros right now lol

[@snobdeerw8163]

Bat swing like matsui 😮

[@danielgoldstein150]

POWER PROS MUSIC?!?!

[@redsoxkt6838]

A fellow baseball player in Japan described him as the “Juan Soto of Japan”

[@ciello___8307]

Adam jones (who played with him) said that!

[@軽石-f8d]

like Michael Brantley

[@ethanniedorowski116]

I needed this jolly ty... sad sox fan I would have been fine with Xander if he was Barry bonds into his 40s or David Wright.... I just wanted him to return an retire a Sox an go to hall a redsox Betts an Lester hurt but this is different he wanted to stay... an would have taken 100mil less had he not been ducked around for a year plus.... a damn shame

[@djones1379cleo]

Not worried about loosing Xander. I expect more out is Story now and would rather spend the money on Devers.

[@hiptrip99]

Masa Yoshi is real thing.

[@Changsnoop]

0:47 Don't forget Masahiro Tanaka - Yankees gave him $155M

[@CanalOtro]

Wasnt Tanaka's contract over 100MM?

[@Evanfed90]

Highest Japanese POSITION player 😊

[@brendanyeats2359]

Can you do a career video on Matt Kemp?

[@pepitocuentos5276]

When you gonna stream again, if you can?

[@mattmartinez5436]

Hey bro. Great video idea. Alcides Escobar

[@alleanklienbonita4705]

RED SOX!!

[@michaellalli7693]

Yoshita will love hitting at Fenway. He’ll take advantage of the wall and take care of the lead off spot.

[@theurbancowboys]

With the ban shifts he should hit 300 easy

[@jeffreymertes6517]

Showed devers striking out looking on a ball high 😂.. but happy about Yoshida. They say he doesn’t have power but all the highlights I’ve seen looks like he spanks homers

[@TheSoxfann]

Great video! Pretty fast-paced and thorough. There is a lot to like about Yoshida. He's coming into Boston at a very difficult time. I hope he adjusts successfully. On the bright side, if he doesn't adjust well, it should surely be the end of Bloom in Boston. 😀🎆 グッドラックヨシダ！私はあなたを応援しています!!!

[@theman1412]

I question how his outfield defense will be

[@kukukuku8891]

Defence is not so good and he is not fast too. really really good hitter though

[@ciello___8307]

a little better than Juan Soto from What I saw, so average at best

[@therealbs2000]

Jolly olive talking about the contact king...let's hope he is not a joke character like condiment king

[@solodolo_mma3971]

He’s going to have fun with the Pesky Pole 😂

[@hooniesscc]

make a vid about lee junghoo

[@jeremynitta1449]

To Red Sox fans: to everyone saying we’re losing a star at the most important position, so we just forget you have Trevor Story? You’ll be fine at SS. It’s the nostalgia, plus the overall impact that you’re losing

[@Quanic2000]

As a Yankee fan, I'm confused by the Red Sox. Yoshida is pretty much compared to Benintendi. But the Red Sox had Benintendi. They let Bogarts go, but sign Yoshida.

[@stevansanchez9239]

DUDE facts. Whoever is running the Red Sox are fkin up so bad it's laughable. Absolute disaster in the front office right now. Can't believe they really let go of Betts, Benintendi, Renfroe, Schwarber, Vazquez and now Bogey. That's a legit lineup lmao

[@TheCybercoco]

@@stevansanchez9239 Yeah, was pissed off at the Benintendi trade. Not just the fact he was traded, but that he was traded for magic beans (or they might as well have been). We're going to have to call Chaim: Jack. Betts I can't really blame them, since he was insisting on testing free agency. Bogearts is Jon Lester 2.0. They show appreciation by low balling him at the beginning of the year, they don't trade him but they also don't sign him before he goes to free agency. Then they get outbid. They even lost a draft option by staying over the luxury tax after the trade deadline by keeping him and a few other potential rentals for a contender. This front office is a joke. But to be fair, the ownership doesn't seem to care anymore either. They're business people and not really baseball people. They may have gotten 4 championships, but they really need to sell if they're going to remain apathetic and cheap.

[@emmanuelgarcia7027]

Could he be a DH that hits for doubles

[@tamehamehaprints3604]

poor mans barry bonds mixed with a bit of ichiro gwynn brett kawakami oshita and mel ott

[@chrisfox8036]

Sounds like the Red Sox need one Bryan Reynolds we’ll take your farm for him

[@AsakuraAnaru]

ボストンは来年 正尚フィーバーになるだろう！！

[@richarledge4863]

Yeah, we'll see. This guy hasn't seen taken one MLB bat. He's not going to be another Otani, for sure.

[@awerwawr2380]

As an Orin fan ,I promise his BA will not be less than .290 but please don’t mention to his fielding.

[@kuroneko7022]

Although not a Red Sox fan I’m glad he went North instead of West, especially to any California team. Poor Shohei got stuck with the Angels, a sucky team who’s roster isn’t very diverse at all. It seems the MLB keeps recruiting all these good Japanese players and I can understand why: they’re very disciplined, committed to the sport, always give 100% and you won’t find them running to the mound to fight if a pitcher hits them while they’re at bat. Fighting at a sports game is something you won’t find in Japan. I can just imagine how abhorred they are seeing that in American sports. 😂 I love Yoshida and I know the NPB will miss him but the MLB knows they’re getting a player who was well coached, has good skills, polite and won’t give them problems.

[@jiehuang954]

Barry Bonds in 2004 at age 39 had 232 walks while striking out 41 times...

[@wrathofrock8323]

That’s nuts.

[@jiehuang954]

@@wrathofrock8323 Yep! People can say all they want about the PED use, but the fact that Bonds is the most disciplined hitter in the history of baseball alone deserve to be in the HOF because you can't cheat on that part of the game .

[@dre32pitt]

@@jiehuang954 I agree.. He was HoF worthy pre-PEDs, imo.. He just got jealous at the notoriety that McGwire and Sosa were getting, who he knew were juicing, and said, "Hold my syringes.."

[@jiehuang954]

@@dre32pitt Knowing Bond's personality he would careless about the media attentions. The only reason he's using "PEDs" was to stay healthy and play as long as he can chasing the only thing matters in his career, which was the World Series Ring.

[@dre32pitt]

@@jiehuang954 He's pretty petty, so I wouldn't be surprised if it further fueled his disdain for the media..

[@916mw]

This should help put the Sox in 4th place instead of 5th place this year 😂😂😂😂😂

[@江越大賀-s6z]

来年は日本人MLB選手が多いから朝方の通勤が憂鬱にならずに済みそうやwww

[@tonytone165]

Japaneses pitchers normally have better performance than hitter in MLB. I doubt if he can transfer the same level of performance to MLB. We will see!!

[@metalgeartrusty]

I wonder why players from the Dominican Republic arent getting contracts this big, can anyone explain to me why Nippon players get contracts like this? is it like, the Japanese league is the best baseball league in the world besides the MLB? Houston Astros winnin WS with dominicans throwin no hitters and winnin WS MVP, paying them a fraction of what others get paid. I know for some its cuz they signed young, wheras these Nippon players are more proven commodities i guess? im just curious...

[@itouchgrass713]

Maybe it's the market. The team needs to make money from fans not only from ticket sales but also from merchandise.

[@metalgeartrusty]

@@itouchgrass713 there are lots of people worldwide willing to buy jerseys for their favorite players. Japan population- 125 million people, Dominican Republic population-11 million. that definitely is part of it.

[@cantripleplays]

Yes it is, but the Dominicans also come in at younger ages and so are seen to be more likely to bust and need more development.

[@CadChamberlain]

Yoshida seems like the perfect replacement at DH for JD Martinez

[@TheCybercoco]

Don't expect the Red Sox to do the dedicated DH role anymore.

[@plantex625]

​@@TheCybercoco Yeah why would we want a a really good dedicated DH, its not like Ortiz and JD were our best hitters that led us to 4 WS wins or anything. Bloom is a joke

[@shmerps5809]

2:13 IMO Yamamoto is better and more the face of the franchise. definitely gonna go watch yoshida at fenway tho

[@MisterOmega-yv3lb]

It still blows my mind how much baseball is grown so big in Japan. Went from bombing Pearl Harbor to playing America's game and having it a part as their culture and become one of the most popular sports.

[@suteakadakarayo]

Not to nitpick but baseball was already one of the most popular sport in Japan about 20 years before Pearl Harbor especially at the amateur level like Uni or high school drawing national attention.

[@JADiaz10]

Wow. My White Sox really could’ve used a nice Lefty OF smh. Jerry crying poor.

[@bigjared8946]

This contract is comedy and I already feel bad for Yoshida for what he's going to get in Boston for merely being what he is. If we're going with NPB comps, I'm seeing Nori Aoki, who was pretty good but certainly not a game changer type.

[@jermainerodgers]

Juan soto 2.0

[@peachykeen3194]

So, "it's kinda bad over there" in Boston, eh? Sounds to me like someone's still in denial about deGrom signing with Texas.

[@Yellowfver783]

And reportedly telling his agents to not even talk to the Mets lmaoo. But let’s be honest tho. We’re all still in shambles about losing Xander

[@TheCybercoco]

It is kind of bad over in Boston, though. You'd have to be blind to not see it as a fan.

[@peachykeen3194]

@@TheCybercoco TIL that "bad" is being only 4 years removed from a World Series championship, and 1 year removed from an ALCS berth.

[@jessehammer123]

@@Yellowfver783 I haven’t heard anything about deGrom telling his agents not to talk to the Mets. The closest thing I’ve heard is that he didn’t give the Mets a chance to make a final offer. Can you provide a source for that deGrom completely froze the Mets out?

[@jessehammer123]

Mets fans have Verlander, Nimmo, Quintana, Robertson, and Senga (and Raley vía trade, which is nice) since losing deGrom. I think we’ll be okay.

[@八木エルカ]

As an Orix fan,　A naked women robbed a OSAKA bank. Nobody could remember her face.

[@miked1501]

Love your vids, can you make a video on Murakami? Hope he’s a Yankee when he can come over in 2025

[@JollyOlive]

Planning on it next year.

[@sethkinslow674]

@@JollyOlive Can you do a video about Jerry Hairston's incredible comeback season in 2008?

[@worldwideweb6509]

His theme song kzbin.info/www/bejne/r6nbm2ppf6iJarM

[@jujuking9502]

He looks bigger than Mookie Betts and Jose Altuve. Not sure why his size gets talked up so much. Probably the usual stereotype signalling.

[@user-xg9dn7kx3s]

yeah, he is one of the best hitter, not a player.

[@fromulus]

God damn I hate red sox ownership. I don't care what they've accomplished, because they're not accomplishing shit lately. Now we lose an all-star shortstop and gain an outfielder that may or may not be decent, we'll have to wait and see. If he's not decent, well I guess we can add it to the list of big contracts that keep us from getting better.

[@JorgeGarcia-xd6ve]

Lets be honest, this guy is slow & has no glove. Short arms.

[@とまとまと-x5j]

鈴木よりも打撃では確実に良い成績を残すと思う 守備と走塁、あとは怪我が心配

[@ToTo-kj3em]

鈴木誠也は速球に強かったからなー。速球を打てないと秋山や筒香路線になる可能性も高い。日本でどれだけ打ったかは対して関係ない。

[@christophers.4286]

It's not " kinda bad "as a Red Sox fan..It's like a never ending feast of shit at exorbitant prices.

[@dre32pitt]

At least you have rings in the past 2 decades and your owners spend money... - Tormented A's Fan

[@christophers.4286]

@@dre32pitt Andre our owners spent money..They overpay for the far less effective plan b. If Devers doesn't get inked before spring training he'll be gone too. A great organization doesn't lose its franchise players on a regular basis. At least you had the 70s.

[@dre32pitt]

@@christophers.4286 Good points.. The A's just trade their star players when they're about to be due for a salary bump and rinse, repeat.. we resigned Eric Chavez, but he only had one productive season after that and was plagued by injuries.. I wasn't around back then, but I did see them win vs the Giants, which was bittersweet as I root for both.. I have been lucky though.. I've seen all my teams win titles with my own eyes.. A's, Giants, Niners, Warriors..

[@christophers.4286]

@@dre32pitt I would argue it's worse knowing the team financially could re-sign players and don't then knowing your team can't afford a franchise talent and eventually will trade him when he gets too expensive.

[@dre32pitt]

@@christophers.4286 No argument here, that's the A's way for the last 30 years..

[@s7131]

過大評価でびっくりした。　怖いボストンファンに手のひら返しされないことを祈ります。

[@uchikoshi-TL]

ボストンファンの大多数は「高すぎ、この金をボガーツ残留に使えば・・・」ってなってるので平凡な成績でも納得してくれると思います