These kids today, they don’t appreciate what it means to hit cleanup.
“It only matters in the first inning,” Didi Gregorius, who has hit fourth 73 times as a Yankee since 2016, said Saturday. “After that, it doesn’t matter.”
Nevertheless, for those of us wearing a certain age, the cleanup slot still carries a certain sheen. And when Gleyber Torres becomes the youngest Yankee (at 21 years and 199 days) since Mickey Mantle to get the honor, as per veteran TV producer Moses Massena, it reverberates, even if not to Torres himself — who simply smiled, as he headed to the field, when The Post tried to engage him in conversation about hitting fourth.