Kyle Harrison didn’t think his option to Triple-A Worcester would last very long. After all, he’d been minutes away from starting a Sunday Night Baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers when the San Francisco Giants informed him that he was now a Red Sox, traded for Rafael Devers.
The left-hander spent nearly three months in the top level of the Red Sox farm system before his new organization brought him up to the big leagues for the first time.
Ironically, the Red Sox were in familiar territory at the time. The Athletics, on the move for the third time in franchise history, are sharing the Giants’ Triple-A ballpark while they construct a new home in Las Vegas. Harrison would be making his Red Sox debut in the place where he’d once dreamed of being a Giants big-leaguer.
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