What it comes down to, as we survey the cosmic forces that will finally put Gleyber Torres in a Yankees uniform, is coverage.
The Yankees launched the season with coverage in favor of assigning their top prospect to the minor leagues. They actually gained a little coverage, in a manner that didn’t please them, on Monday night.
In between and moving forward, however? They are running out of coverage.
As long as Torres proves as soon as Wednesday that Monday’s mid-back tightness (which prompted his removal from a Triple-A game) was nothing more than a cold-weather scare, he should join the Yankees’ starting lineup as soon as Thursday at home against the Blue Jays.