Letting Gleyber Torres go after the 2024 season was almost a necessity. Though he provided a spark for the last two months of the year during the team's World Series run, the New York Yankees slugger was far too inconsistent to pay a real salary (even though it turns out they wouldn't have had to after he signed a one-year, $15 million deal with the Detroit Tigers).
Ever since the conclusion of Torres' 2019 All-Star campaign in the Bronx, it was all downhill for him and the Yankees. Torres never fully reached his 2018-2019 heights over his final five seasons.