TAMPA — Gleyber Torres is entering what could be his final year as a Yankee, but there has been no talk of keeping him in the Bronx.
Manager Brian Cashman said Thursday that the Yankees are not currently negotiating an extension with Torres.
“He’s our second baseman this year,” Cashman said. “We haven’t discussed anything beyond that.”
Torres, 27, is coming off a season in which he was the Yankees’ most consistent hitter other than Aaron Judge.
However, the Yankees generally avoid signing players to extensions, and the last two players they signed (Aaron Hicks and Luis Severino) both performed poorly.
When asked if there will be no discussions regarding Torres’ contract extension until the end of the year, Cashman denied that.
“You know? I don’t know,” he said. “There is no discussion about that at this time.”
Corey Kluber not only threw a no-hitter during his short time as a Yankee, he made an impact.
Now that the two-time Cy Young Award winner has retired, the Yankees are in the early stages of discussing bringing him back in some sort of advisory role.
“The infancy of it. We had a brief conversation,” Cashman said, but he has not spoken directly to Kluber about the opportunity. “Corey is a great, talented pitcher, but he’s retired now. When he was here, he obviously got a no-hitter for us and really had a big impact on our clubhouse. has already started the conversation.”
Kluber is interested in staying involved in the game, but the Yankees aren’t the only team pursuing him.
But the 37-year-old lives in the Tampa area and is close to former Cleveland teammate Nick Swisher, who serves as a special advisor to Cashman.
So Cashman said Kluber recently spent some time in the Yankees’ player development facility.
Three months after the Yankees de-tendered him, Lou Trivino officially returned to the roster on Wednesday, signing a one-year, $1.5 million contract with a $5 million team option in 2025.
“I told everyone, ‘If you show up, you have to sign a contract,'” Trivino said with a smile Thursday, the day after his medical at Steinbrenner Field.
When the Yankees non-tendered Trivino in November, they said they wanted to keep in touch and the veteran relief pitcher wanted to return, but that finally happened this week, giving the team more flexibility on the 40-man roster. Gave. Added Jason Dominguez to the 60-day injured list.
Trivino is currently rehabbing from UCL reconstruction surgery and has progressed to bullpen pitching practice, but believes he will be ready to pitch for the Yankees “at some point in the middle of the season.”
Manager Scott Efros’ December back surgery was a microdiscectomy of his L4 and L5 discs, the relief pitcher announced Thursday.
When he experienced discomfort in the second half of his pitches while rehabbing from Tommy John surgery, Efros first tried to work through it and then tried to treat it with a conservative approach.
However, it continued to bother him and only got worse to the point where he opted for surgery.
“Once I was on the other side, I immediately felt at ease,” he said.
Efros is currently restarting his pitching program and plans to slowly build it up with the goal of returning at some point this summer.
“It’s very disappointing,” he said. “The ultimate goal is to be able to get back on the team as soon as possible and help the team win the World Series. That’s still my goal. It’s still completely on the table. I want to get back as soon as possible. That’s kind of a hindrance. But yeah, it was really frustrating.”
