Alex Verdugo is heading to the Bronx.

As first reported by MLB insider Jeff Passan, the Red Sox and Yankees made a rare trade on Tuesday evening. In exchange for their longest-tenured outfielder, Boston receives three right-handers: Richard Fitts, Greg Weissert, and Nicholas Judice.

Judice wasn’t in the Yankees’ Top 30, but Fitts was their No. 12 prospect. According to Double-A managers, the latter exhibited the best control of any pitcher in the Eastern League this season.

Of the trio, Weissert is the only one who’s debuted; he made 29 relief appearances in pinstripes between 2022-23, and posted a 4.60 ERA across 31 1/3 innings.

Verdugo is in his final year of arbitration, and has been the subject of trade rumors for several months.

This is the 49th trade in the storied rivalry’s long and chaotic history, but only the seventh in the last half-century. It’s also notable in the symbolic sense; Verdugo was the centerpiece of the Mookie Betts trade, the most significant move in Red Sox history since their sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees almost exactly a century earlier.