The Yankees announced that the team and infielder Gleyber Torres have settled on a one-year contract, avoiding an arbitration hearing. According to MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand, Torres will make $9.95 million in 2023.
Torres and the Yankees failed to agree to a salary number at the deadline, meaning the two sides were headed to a hearing if they didn’t settle. Initially, Torres filed at $10.2 million, while the Yankees filed at $9.7 million, but the two sides found common ground in the middle of those numbers.
The second baseman is coming off a bounce-back season in 2022, when he totaled a .