We’re coached to dislike the status quo in sports. Moves must be made especially after a disappointing season. The remnants of the 2023 Yankees will require a lot of work to overhaul into a playoff-caliber roster, but there’s one move that doesn’t need to be made; any kind of decision on Gleyber Torres.
Yankee fans have been bifurcated for more than a year on the issue of trading or extending the second baseman. There’s a camp that insists he’s at peak value and the team should therefore sell high on him, and a camp that believes he’s an integral part not just of the 2024 Yankees, but the next six or seven years.