Boston Red Sox' Masataka Yoshida told Alex Cora he needed ‘two days'
Cora asked him how many minor league at-bats he needed.
'Two days,' Cora said Yoshida told him.
Yoshida's rehab assignment was brief, although not as short as he apparently wanted it to be. It lasted five games and 17 plate appearances.
'Honestly, I wanted to come back sooner than today,' Yoshida said through translator Yutaro Yamaguchi.
He certainly looked ready in his 2025 debut Wednesday. He went 3-for-4 with a double, RBI single and one run to help lead the Red Sox to a 10-2 win over the Rockies at Fenway Park.
Yoshida missed Boston's first 93 games following offseason shoulder surgery.
'We talk about the gap between the big leagues and Triple A. He feels like getting at-bats here is better than actually getting at-bats down there,' Cora said.
'It's a different atmosphere, right? Yoshida added. 'Even if I ... do well in the minors, it doesn't really reflect (what will happen) in the major leagues. It's just a different atmosphere. So that's why I felt I really didn't need that (many) rehab games.'
Yoshida also used the Trajekt pitching machine, which simulates every major league pitcher's windup and repertoire. The machine has helped many players shorten their rehab assignments and return quicker because of its real-game simulation.
On the third pitch of his first at-bat, Yoshida ripped a 96.2 mph fastball from Antonio Senzatela into center field for a single.
He hit an RBI single off first baseman Michael Toglia's glove and into right field to put Boston ahead 2-0 in the fourth inning. He also doubled in the eighth and scored on Romy Gonzalez's two-run homer that gave Boston a 7-2 lead.
'Happy to have Masa back. That's a big at-bat for us,' Cora said. 'You saw the difference today — how long the lineup was. And that's without Ceddanne (Rafaela) in the lineup. We have to figure out who's going to play and all that stuff. But I think it's the deepest lineup we've had in a while here.'
Yoshida's return was delayed because shoulder soreness affected his throwing. He showed in spring training the shoulder issue didn't have much of an effect on his hitting. He appeared in 11 Grapefruit League games and batted .286 (10-for-35) with a homer and double.
But the Red Sox wanted him to be able to play the outfield before returning, especially with Rafael Devers serving as the everyday DH back then.
'He did a good job throughout the rehab, tracking pitches and the swing was always there,' Cora said. 'He had a little setback at one point with his back when he went to Fort Myers. But the guy, he's a good hitter. He's a professional in every aspect.
'I was worried that he was going to be frustrated with the whole situation of him being able to hit and not being activated,' Cora added. 'But I talked to (his translator) about that and he was like, 'No, he's not because he's not ready.' He wasn't ready with his arm. We talk about the throwing. But the swing, yeah, it might have looked good but it wasn't where it was supposed to be — and now it is. So we're happy to have him back.'
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Of course, the truth embraced by Shupe that 'money in circulation will always maintain its ideal level' rejects all the fabulism on Wall Street, academia, and within the economic commentariat that aggressive creation of what they imagine is 'money' instigates stock-market rallies. What an insult. Call it 'you didn't build that,' Wall Street edition. More realistically, producers decide what monetary forms circulate based on the not-so-insightful truth that they seek roughly equal amounts of product for the product they bring to market. Applied to equities, the very notion that owners of shares in the production of the world's most innovative people would blithely exchange what's precious for just any paper is truly silly. It's not just that government meddling runs wholly counter to what lifts equity markets, it's not just that markets yet again gain their vitality from periods of weakness as money relentlessly puts out to pasture what is no longer meeting and leading the needs of the people, it's not that the mindless contradiction that is 'easy money' has never lifted stocks in Europe and Japan in the way that the confused claim it's lifted them stateside (again, 'you didn't build that'), it's that all of what's been used to explain market conditions completely misunderstands what money is. Money rewards production, nothing else. It's where production is, nowhere else. Shupe puts it so well, that 'when we understand that money is the stored legacy of productive minds, we earn a healthy respect for it.' Markets respect money, so does Shupe, but not most conventional thinkers who comment on money and markets. Hence Shupe's book. From this understanding of money as evidence of production expands understanding for readers more broadly. Consider the myth about so-called 'pricing power.' Reporters, pundits, and economists talk about it, believe it's real, but since money in circulation reflects production while attaching a money price to market goods, the rational can see that it's not. As Shupe notes, 'prices are information and new sellers will continuously enter the marketplace to capture some of that business.' What's true about market prices is true about equity prices. The price of well-regarded, some would say 'dominant' corporations is the lure for new investment meant to compete away the dominance. Quoting Shupe directly from the previous paragraph, 'prices are information and new sellers will continuously enter the marketplace to capture some of that business.' All of which explains why so-called 'monopolies' should be revered and cheered. They're the price signal that summons competition. Conversely, a lack of so-called 'monopoly' profits should similarly be cheered as information for telling investors where more capital is not needed. As Shupe explains it, 'breaking even is not productive.' No, it's not, which is why prices are so elemental to progress. From the above we can further see the truth about money. The very notion that central banks could 'gun' so-called 'money supply,' or equally ridiculous, that central banks could contract so-called 'money supply,' insults common sense. Production is money, it's an expression of a desire to get, so to pretend as the right and left do, that economic progress or contraction is an effect of how 'easy' or 'tight' a central bank is, really and truly vandalizes reason. It also explains why the dollar circulates all over the world, and in countries that already have their own currencies. It's quite simply not money unless producers say so. Real money doesn't instigate, it's an effect. Rand wore the dollar sign because the dollar then and now facilitates the exchange of goods, services and labor for goods, services and labor. Equities are a market good like any other. Their prices once again instruct us on what's needed, what's not, and what could be. Which is why per Shupe yet again that 'money in circulation will always maintain its ideal level.' It quite simply wouldn't be money if it didn't. In an investing-specific sense, Shupe's client-focused approach is to find out 'how much downside market risk can be absorbed without changing the spending goals, saving habits, or the timing events for the investor.' Which seems to ask how much money is the individual willing to lose in the near-term, and in recognition of what near-term losses could mean for the long term. The question itself would elicit as many answers as there are people, along with wildly different answers from those same people depending on the direction of the stock market. Which seemingly helps this reviewer to provide a simplified approach to Shupe's more detailed investment technique. Put in Moneyball terms, how to avoid getting outs? On per Munger, how to be "consistently not stupid." The seemingly obvious answer is that there's no way to avoid it altogether. Which is no insight. Just as you can't coach speed, you also can't coach a lack of emotional swings. Better to let the markets worry for you, rather than worry about what can't be controlled. Which means there's no certain, individual stock-picking style that's necessarily going to work. That's particularly true if you have a destination that you're trying to reach. To see why, contemplate the blue-chips at the beginning of the 21st century. Seemingly buying the best of the best corporations to buy and hold would seemingly be the path to a gilded retirement? Perhaps think again. When the 21st century dawned GE was the world's most valuable company, AOL and Yahoo were the darlings of the internet, Barron's told us Tyco was the next GE, Enron had the smartest executives (which may have been true despite the outcome), Lucent was the future of communications, etc. Readers get where this is going. So does Shupe. As first discussed early in this review, Shupe once again tells readers to 'replace the stress and errors of predicting the future and beating the market with the resilience of objective data.' Markets once again predict markets. Rather than trying to pick the best of the future best on the way to market-beating returns, just be invested in broad market indices, including those known to perform best when stocks are known to perform the worst. Shupe observes that 'index funds are the best fit,' while intermediate term (7-10 years) Treasuries 'are the best historical hedge against stock market risk.' The Treasury hedge in dollar terms would seemingly grow or shrink depending on one's willingness to take risks. It had me wondering while reading The Moneyball Method how much of Shupe's own wealth is hedged. This is asked not as a sleuth trying to find holes in Shupe's investment process, but is instead a question rooted in speculation, all based on Shupe's reverence for productive minds. While Treasuries are in a very real sense a riskless income stream since they're backed by productive minds via taxation, equities represent an ownership stake in the brilliant work of productive minds. Treasuries are yet again an income stream in dollars, while equities represent ownership of the boundless upside that can be captured when productive minds are matched with capital. It's a long way of speculating that Shupe is hedged quite a bit less than most for whom he's managed wealth. And that's not a criticism. As alluded to earllier, there are as many investing styles as there are people. Still, as someone who recognizes what money is, and who has a healthy respect for money based on this understanding, it's hard to imagine that Shupe would ever heap even a little disrespect on precious money by exchanging it with the U.S. Treasury in return for the latter's excessive taxable access to our production. Mark Shupe has written a very interesting and enlightening book about investing. Of great importance to readers, he doesn't just provide them with a roadmap for putting wealth to work, he also provides them with a rare understanding of the money that represents the wealth, and that clarifies money as the brilliant effect of the productive minds who relentlessly improve the world through tireless efforts to improve themselves.
