Last Sunday, Gleyber Torres dug in for a 1-0 pitch in the fifth inning against the Blue Jays. Right-hander Adam Cimber delivered a slider that didn’t slide, and Torres took advantage, sending it on a line to the left-center-field wall. Torres was both all over Cimber, attacking the reliever aggressively early in the count, and in control, letting the hanging slider come to him, staying behind the ball and giving himself the chance to drive it out into the gap.
The at-bat typified Torres’ resurgent season. After a shaky first few weeks, the 25-year-old has morphed into one of the most dependable bats in the Yankees lineup, erasing the memory of his largely disappointing 2020 and 2021 campaigns.