By Tom Verducci
Unlike Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton and even Didi Gregorius, Gleyber Torres is not a great candidate to produce the kind of spectacular highlights that get passed around social media. But if you watch games, not just highlights, you are quickly impressed with the rookie second baseman.
Torres, at just 21, has a freakishly advanced approach to hitting. It’s exactly what the power-laden, strikeout-prone New York lineup needs to be complete. I don’t recall any player this young and this inexperienced using a wholesale different approach with two strikes as he does with no or one strike.