Masataka Yoshida — 2026 Season
2026 Season Stats
Masataka Yoshida — 2026 Season Highlights
As of 10/1, Masataka Yoshida is a left fielder on the Boston Red Sox's 40-man roster who has kept playing this season and is hitting better than he did last year. He has improved on his 2025 production in both on-base ability and power, and he has received more playing time. A two-time NPB batting champion, he has settled in as a steady contact hitter in the majors. The question now is whether he can keep up that level of production while holding on to regular at-bats.
- 1His hitting is up across the board compared with last year, with better results in both getting on base and hitting for power. He has also played more than he did in 2025.
- 2His calling card is a consistent, high-contact approach: he won two NPB batting titles and earned five Best Nine selections. He also batted cleanup for Japan when it won the 2023 WBC.
- 3The thing to watch is whether he can sustain this level of production while continuing to play regularly. It will also be worth following how close this season comes to his overall major-league standard.
Detailed Analysis
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Season Analysis
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Splits vs LHP / RHP
Metrics Deep Dive
MLB-wide percentile rank, defensive and pitching metric summaries, pitch-type stats, and batted-ball distribution.
Batting — MLB-wide Standing
batting average ranks in the top 29% of MLB. The rest sit closer to league average.
Bars show percentile rank among MLB-wide qualified players.
2026 Defensive Summary (OAA / DRS / Fielding %)
Top row is Statcast's advanced read (OAA / DRS-equivalent). Even when OAA sits near 0, the fielder handles plenty of chances — the putouts, assists and fielding % below show the actual workload.
Masataka Yoshida's 2026 OAA is —. OAA is Statcast's flagship defensive metric: it measures how many outs a fielder records above what an average fielder would on the same batted balls. +5 is above average, +10+ is Gold Glove caliber. Data is sourced from Baseball Savant's public leaderboard and refreshed every Monday.
Masataka Yoshida's 2026 DRS-equivalent value is — (shown as Fielding Runs Prevented on the runs-saved scale). DRS (Defensive Runs Saved) is the FanGraphs-side counterpart metric — both convert defensive value into runs, so the two are directly comparable. This site standardizes on Savant's OAA / FRP rather than running its own DRS calculation.
UZR (Ultimate Zone Rating) is a FanGraphs-only defensive metric. This site does not compute UZR — for UZR specifically, refer to Masataka Yoshida's FanGraphs page. We standardize on Statcast OAA / FRP as the primary defensive read.
wRC+ Quick Cards (Park-Adjusted Proxies)
wRC+ is not exposed by the MLB Stats API, so we surface the two closest proxies for an instant read on hitting quality.
About wRC+ — How OPS+ / xwOBA compare▾
wRC+ scales overall offense to 100 = league average, adjusting for park factors and league context. Because the MLB Stats API does not expose wRC+ directly, we display the two closest proxies: OPS+ (OPS divided by the MLB average .720) and xwOBA (expected wOBA derived from exit velocity and launch angle). OPS+ 100 is league average; 130+ is roughly equivalent to an All-Star caliber wRC+ 130, and 150+ approaches MVP territory. xwOBA averages around .320; anything north of .400 marks elite contact quality.
Stats by Pitch Type
AVG / SLG / Whiff% by pitch type this season. PA = at-bats that ended on each pitch type.
| Pitch | Seen% | PA | AVG | SLG | Whiff% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Four-Seam Fastball | 34.6% | 108 | .352 | .477 | 4.2% |
| Sinker | 14.2% | 41 | .250 | .500 | 14.5% |
| Changeup | 12.7% | 41 | .303 | .515 | 23.4% |
| Curveball | 9.7% | 23 | .286 | .286 | 28.9% |
| Cutter | 8.7% | 29 | .292 | .458 | 13.6% |
| Slider | 8.0% | 18 | .500 | .667 | 17.6% |
| Splitter | 5.6% | 13 | .364 | .455 | 20.8% |
| Sweeper | 3.4% | 13 | .375 | .500 | 15.4% |
| Knuckle Curve | 2.7% | 8 | .167 | .167 | 21.4% |
PA: at-bats ending on each pitch type. Seen%: share of all pitches thrown. Whiff%: whiffs per swing. Types with fewer than 10 pitches excluded.
Exit Velocity × Launch Angle (Statcast)
233 batted balls this season. Gold = Barrel, white border = HR. Shaded band is sweet spot (8–32°).
Game Log
Last 10 Games
Last 10 Games（テーブル表示）
| Date | Opp | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/16 | @ PIT | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 08/15 | @ PIT | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 08/14 | @ TOR | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 08/13 | @ TOR | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 08/12 | @ TOR | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 08/11 | @ TOR | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 08/08 | H OAK | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 08/07 | H CWS | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 08/06 | H CWS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 08/05 | H CWS | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Date | Opp | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 08/16 | @ PIT | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 08/15 | @ PIT | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 08/14 | @ TOR | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 08/13 | @ TOR | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 08/12 | @ TOR | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 08/11 | @ TOR | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 08/08 | H OAK | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 08/07 | H CWS | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 08/06 | H CWS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 08/05 | H CWS | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |