NEW YORK – Early Thursday afternoon, Jhostynxon Garcia was in the Red Sox Triple-A clubhouse getting a bite to eat when his manager pulled him into his office and asked him if he’d ever been to Yankee Stadium before.

“Not yet,” the 22-year-old outfielder said.

“Do you want to go?” Chad Tracy responded.

“Of course,” Garcia replied.

“Today?” Tracy asked.

Less than four hours and one first-class plane ride later, Garcia walked into Yankee Stadium to join the Boston Red Sox.

“Very special day, I didn’t expect this today,” Garcia said (through translator Carlos Benitez) as he sat in the visitors’ dugout wearing a brand-new Red Sox cap. “Happiness. It’s just happiness, and also the sentiments that it’s something that I’ve been fighting (for) since I was a little kid, that was a dream come

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