The Red Sox have invested heavily in high school infielders over the past few years. Will that trend continue in 2023? Here are a few prospects Boston could target in this weekend's MLB Draft.
Phillips Andover lefty Thomas White has developed into one of the top baseball prospects to ever come out of Massachusetts and is considered a likely first-round pick in next month's MLB Draft.
When longtime major league outfielder Adam Jones arrived in Japan to play for the Orix Buffaloes in 2020, he noticed one player right away a player everyone called Harper-san, who wore No. 34.
It wasn’t Bryce Harper himself, of course, but one of his biggest fans: current Red Sox outfielder Masataka Yoshida.
Yoshida not only wore 34 in Japan for Harper, but named his French bulldog Harper and uses an Instagram handle (BH Masataka34) with Harper’s initials and number. When Nippon Professional Baseball had a game where players wore nicknames on the backs of their jerseys, Yoshida,.
Masataka Yoshida, who was out of the lineup for the third straight game Friday due to right hamstring tightness, expects to return on Saturday for the second game of this weekend's series against Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Angels. Speaking in the home dugout prior to Friday's game, Yoshida expressed excitement about getting to share the big stage with his countryman.