Good luck to MLB The Show developers for attempting to figure this one out.
The Yankees have, not a switch-hitter, not even a switch-pitcher, they’ve a switch-fielder!
Anthony Seigler, drafted twenty third overall by the Yankees in 2018 out of Cartersville High School in Georgia, played with Double-A Somerset on Wednesday evening appearing as a left-handed-throwing left fielder, after which on Thursday night as a right-handed-throwing catcher.
Fielding with opposite arms is one thing, but the opposite?
Those two positions aren’t remotely similar in baseball.
Seigler was drafted as a catcher in 2018 and has primarily played behind the plate since entering the Yankees’ organization.
He’s also played a few games within the outfield and 18 as a delegated hitter.
After playing his first game in left field on Wednesday, where he played two innings and was 1-for-1 on his defensive possibilities, the Yankees prospect addressed why he made the weird change.
“After I was younger, I all the time played outfield lefty, so there was little question that if I ever got the chance to do it in pro ball, it was definitely going to be lefty,” Seigler said to MLB.com.
This season, Seigler is hitting .170 with 1 home run and 16 RBIs and a .558 OPS.
Seigler, who’s 5-foot-9 and listed at 200 kilos, is a profession .216 hitter within the minors.
