Former Yankees top prospect resurfaces with Red Sox just in time for Boston series

If you're a Yankees fan of a certain age, you probably still have the name "Anthony Seigler" rolling around somewhere in the back of your head. An uber-athletic two-way prospect out of Georgia's Cartersville High School — he was both a switch-hitter and a switch-pitcher — New York liked him enough to take him with the No. 23 overall pick in the 2018 MLB Draft AND pay him full slot value to keep him away from the University of Florida.

Unfortunately, Seigler's career in Pinstripes never got off the ground. It took him six years just to reach Double-A, where he posted a .693 OPS across parts of two seasons. By that point the Yankees had about seen enough, and Seigler was allowed to hit free agency at the end of the 2024 campaign — the latest in a long line of highly touted position-player prospects (from Eric Jagielo to Kyle Holder to Blake Rutherford) who failed to pan out as Brian Cashman had hoped.

But while that was the end of the line for Seigler as a Yankee, he didn't give up on his MLB dream. After spending the 2025 season with the Brewers, he was sent to Boston in the Kyle Harrison trade this past winter. And now, he's set to make his mark with the Red Sox ... just in time to face the team that drafted him.

Anthony Seigler promotion shows just how bad the Red Sox infield crisis has gotten

With Nick Sogard heading to the IL — the latest in a long line of injuries that have decimated Boston's already-thin infield — the Red Sox have called Seigler up from Triple-A Worcester, where he's posted an .896 OPS across 30 games so far this season. He's split his time pretty evenly between second and third base and could well get some starts against right-handed pitching over the likes of Caleb Durbin, Andruw Monasterio, and another former Yankee in Isiah Kiner-Falefa.

Of course, the timing here is pretty ironic, and after living through Oswald Peraza's Yankee Stadium outburst you'd be forgiven for expecting Seigler to have a field day when Boston comes to the Bronx for a three-game set this weekend. But relax: This says way more about the sorry state of the Red Sox infield (and Cashman's uneven drafting history) than anything else. It's only out of desperation that Craig Breslow is turning to a 27-year-old who slashed .194/.292/.210 in his first taste of MLB action with the Brewers last year.

That said, if Yankees pitchers could take care of business here it would be very much appreciated. We saw how insufferable Red Sox fans got about Carlos Narvaez last spring. Oh, and how is that trade working out now?

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