For the first time ever,
an MLB player is going to play for both teams in the same game.
Now, MLB trades have been extremely strange in the past.
Guys have been traded for equipment,
a broadcasters traded for a player,
and this one wasn’t sanctioned by the league,
but two Yankee pitchers traded families.
Players getting traded during a game isn’t strange change though.
The managers just pull and replace them.
However,
if the player is traded to the team he’s currently playing against,
league rules state he has to sit.
You can’t just switch dugouts and throw in a new uni midgame.
So far the closest we’ve come
is a player being traded in the break between a double header.
This changes in 2024 due to a loophole.
On June 26,
Blue Jays catcher Danny Jensen was at the plate first for the Red Sox.
Rain was pouring as he went down 0 1 in the count.
Champs called the game and the clubs rescheduled for August 26.
However, a month before the rescheduled game,
Jansen was traded to Boston.
Obviously, he can’t suit back up for Toronto,
so MLB history will be made if Jansen is in the lineup to bat ninth
in the same spot as Boston’s previous catcher,
Reese Mcguire. On the other side,
a pinch hitter will inherit Jansen’s 0 1 count,
becoming the first player in league history to play for two teams
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