{"id":661604,"date":"2026-04-03T22:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:08:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:08:14","slug":"red-sox-prospect-with-unlikely-career-journey-gets-call-up-for-home-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/661604\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox prospect with unlikely career journey gets call-up for home opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Triple-A Worcester Red Sox were in the midst of getting \u201csnowed out\u201d in St. Paul, Minnesota Thursday afternoon when manager Chad Tracy pulled right-hander Tyler Uberstine aside and made his baseball dreams come true.<\/p>\n

Uberstine was going to the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s awesome,\u201d Uberstine said as he stood in the big-league clubhouse just after 9 a.m. ET Friday, hours after taking a red-eye from Minnesota. \u201cSuper, super unbelievable experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unbelievable is a fitting adjective for the underdog Uberstine. In the last eight years the 6-foot-1 righty went from receiving zero college baseball offers, to being drafted by the Red Sox in the 19th round in 2021, to missing over a year thanks to Tommy John surgery, to returning and pitching his way into the organization\u2019s top prospect rankings (No. 15 this year) and getting called up to the majors.<\/p>\n

For the home opener, no less.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t really realize that until I kind of checked the schedule out,\u201d Uberstine said with a chuckle. \u201cPretty surreal. Pretty, pretty amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite being used in multiple roles throughout spring training, Uberstine said he felt \u201clocked in from Day 1.\u201d His versatility made him a natural replacement when the Red Sox suddenly needed to place Johan Oviedo<\/a> on the 15-day injured list with an elbow strain on Friday.<\/p>\n

Hours after Uberstine\u2019s flight landed in Boston he left his hotel and walked over to his first day of work at America\u2019s oldest ballpark. With the chaos of the home opener, he knew he wouldn\u2019t have time to explore the crown jewel of Boston\u2019s Emerald Necklace.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just really trying to soak it all in,\u201d he said. \u201cYou hear all the great things about Fenway and all that, and just trying to really absorb, soak it in, kind of pinch myself a little bit.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd once the game starts, lock in and do what we do best.\u201d<\/p>\n

Uberstine didn\u2019t end up pitching in Friday\u2019s 5-2 win, but he was able to soak in the experience and watch the Fenway Faithful do what they do best: make Boston\u2019s ballpark the ultimate home field advantage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Triple-A Worcester Red Sox were in the midst of getting \u201csnowed out\u201d in St. Paul, Minnesota Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,1350,4,89,2543,58600],"class_list":{"0":"post-661604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-fenway-park","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-red-sox","15":"tag-redsox","16":"tag-tyler-uberstine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116343060230394672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}