The scrutiny on Gleyber Torres is rising.
His ugly season has gotten extra consideration because the Yankees have hit a tough patch in current weeks, and on Tuesday it reached the YES Community sales space after he didn’t bust out of the field on a smooth grounder within the eighth inning of the workforce’s loss to the Mets.
Torres, who’s coping with groin tightness, got here to the plate proper after Aaron Decide’s grand slam lower the Yankees’ deficit to 9-7, and the second baseman’s groundout ended the inning.
“I imply, you may’t do this,” Michael Kay mentioned as YES confirmed a replay of Torres leisurely jogging to first.
“This sport will beat you right down to the purpose the place — you’re proper Michael. You may’t, you shouldn’t, however the sport simply wears you out,” Paul O’Neill replied.
David Cone mentioned Torres, 27, is “sporting it proper now emotionally” and that he may want a break.
“We’ve seen managers that we’ve performed for, it’d be like Joe Torre saying, ‘Hey, you come sit with me for a pair days,’” Cone mentioned.
Torres, who batted cleanup, completed the night time 0-for-4 to drop his batting common to .215 because the Yankees misplaced for the seventh time in 9 video games.
Supervisor Aaron Boone had a chat with Torres following the sport.
Within the last 12 months of his contract, Torres has only a .628 OPS with seven house runs and 29 RBIs via 80 video games.
Final season, Torres had a slash line of .273/.347/.453 with 25 house runs and 68 RBIs.
He burst onto the scene with the Yankees in 2018 after he came to visit within the 2016 commerce that despatched Aroldis Chapman to the Cubs, ending third within the AL Rookie of the 12 months voting with 24 house runs and an .820 OPS.
In 2019, Torres hit 38 house runs with an .871 OPS, however that has turned out to be the height of his profession to date.
“I believe it’s dangerous,” Torres mentioned Tuesday of the primary half of his season. “Have to determine [how] to get higher. I’m working actually exhausting.”
