Gleyber Torres could be promoted as early as Wednesday without accumulating a year’s service time this season, thus, allowing the Yankees to get basically seven seasons of service out of him rather than six before free agency.
He is a candidate to soon play third base because even with better signs of late from Miguel Andujar, Yankees third basemen rank third worst in how Fangraphs computes Wins Above Replacement, which attempts to provide an overall stat for hitting, fielding and baserunning.
But for the Yankees, it possibly could be worse — they could still have Chase Headley.