According to an unnamed source, and you all reading this
likely know my thoughts on the whole unnamed source thing but it’s Friday so
just roll with it, the New York Yankees are grooming Gleyber Torres not to come
up sometime in 2018 but to come up with the Major League club as soon as July
of 2017. Yes. Next month! Which position would Torres play and which current
Yankees bomber would he bounce out of the starting lineup? Well reportedly that
player will potentially be Yankees third baseman Chase Headley.
Torres, just 20-years old, is seemingly being groomed and
fast-tracked to the Major Leagues by the Yankees and could be up with the team
as early as July of this season. Torres is a natural shortstop but has been
playing short, third base and second base all season long in Double-A and
Triple-A as the team looks to add versatility and flexibility to his game. If
the Yankees call Torres up it would likely be at the expense of Headley who
would be demoted to utility infielder playing third base and first base off the
bench.
Torres is off to a slow start in Triple-A with the bat, at
the time of this writing he was barely above the Mendoza line of .200, but was
hitting .273 with five home runs and 18 RBI in 32 games for Trenton leading me
to believe that this is more of an anomaly than anything.
Torres is ready defensively at any of the three positions
described above and the source claims that the Yankees organization feels as
though Torres will be MLB ready in the next two months. Could we see Torres by
the end of July? Could Torres be one of potentially many Yankees additions at
the July 31st trade deadline a la Luis Severino from a couple
seasons back? Well if you believe in anonymous sources found on the internet….
Then yes. Stay tuned.
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