Gleyber Torres is back. If you’ve been watching the last month of Yankees baseball, you know this to be true. His expected offensive statistics all fall in the high percentiles and the standard slash line is slowly creeping up week by week. His nine home runs are no fluke. The power is real. There is no denying the expected home runs by park on his Statcast profile. They indicate that his home runs have been good enough to be sitting in the double digits in over half the parks.
One good indicator of a hitter’s return to their peak is their at-bats against the league’s best pitchers.