Despite being the youngest prospect participating in this year’s Arizona Fall League, 19-year-old Gleyber Torres of the New York Yankees looks like the early favorite for the AFL MVP away, hitting .429/.520/.810 with two home runs, two doubles, and two steals through the Scottsdale Scorpions first 11 contests. As of this writing he leads all AFL batters in batting average, slugging percentage, and OPS.
Torres’s performance was enough to land him the top spot and a glowing write up on this week’s “Prospect Hot Sheet” from Baseball America. Here’s what evaluator Josh Norris, who has been watching Gleyber first hand all week, had to say:
The Yankees’ prize for sending Aroldis Chapman to the Cubs continues to shine in the AFL.