The New York Yankees lost faith in the second baseman who had held down the position for them since his debut in 2018, when he was named an American League All-Star and placed third in Rookie of the Year voting. That second baseman, of course, was Caracas, Venezuela, native Gleyber Torres, who gave the Yankees seven years and then found himself a free agent who did not even receive an offer from New York that might have kept him there.
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The New York Yankees lost faith in the second baseman who had held down the position for them since his debut in 2018, when he was named an American League All-Star and placed third in Rookie of the Year voting. That second baseman, of course, was Caracas, Venezuela, native Gleyber Torres, who gave the Yankees seven years and then found himself a free agent who did not even receive an offer from New York that might have kept him there.
Torres went on to sign with the Detroit Tigers on a $15 million, one-year contract right after Christmas. So he’s all set. But what about his former team? With 33 days remaining before live spring training competition gets underway, the Yankees still appear to have no plan to replace Torres in the middle infield.
The Yankees showed “interest” in Gavin Lux, the second baseman who was part of the 2024 Los Angeles Dodgers team that denied the Bronx Bombers their 28th World Series title last October. But the reigning champions went ahead and traded Lux to the Cincinnati Reds instead.
The defending AL champs were also reported to have held talks with Brendan Rodgers, a former Gold Glove infielder for the Colorado Rockies who entered the free agent market after Colorado declined to offer him a new contract rather than allow him a third year of arbitration eligibility. But those talks apparently went nowhere.
