Red Sox Catcher Danny Jansen To Be Part Of Wildest MLB Statistical Anomaly

There I was, sitting at my desk at about 5 p.m. Friday night. Call my name. I had just about finished up another article I was writing when the ever-talented Zach Dean sent a doozy of a news alert in our workplace group chat. 

No, I’m not a guy who has a lack of options for fun on Friday night. I could go rock climbing, finish the death note (yes, I just admitted I watch anime sometimes), take a swim at the beach. All of these sound like phenomenal options to me.

Danny Jansen started the year with the Toronto Blue Jays. (Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)

But I could not pass up this opportunity to write about one of the most incredible statistical anomalies you’ll ever see in baseball. So, without further ado, here goes.

The Boston Red Sox and the Toronto Blue Jays played a game on Wednesday, June 26, that was postponed due to heavy rain. The game was called off in the top of the second inning, and the scheduled make-up date was for exactly 2 months later - August 26. 

Now, there’s nothing special about that, games get canceled and made up later in the season all the time. But the intrigue begins with Red Sox catcher Danny Jansen.

On that day two months ago, Jansen was a Blue Jay playing that game against the Red Sox. When that game got called, Jansen had an 0-1 count on him, and Reese McGuire was catching for Boston. 

Since then, the Red Sox let go of McGuire (he’s in their farm system now) and acquired Jansen. That creates a bit of a predicament, since Maguire likely wouldn’t get called up for just one game. So what did Red Sox manager Alex Cory decide to do?

He decided to make baseball history.

Cora announced today that Jansen will be catching for Boston on that make up date next week, and that creates so many