No extension talks between Yanks, Gleyber
TAMPA — Gleyber Torres is entering what could be his final year as a Yankee and there have not yet been any talks about keeping him in The Bronx.
Brian Cashman said Thursday that the Yankees to this point have not had any extension talks with Torres.
“He’s our second baseman for this year,” Cashman said. “Haven’t had any conversations about anything past that.” Torres, 27, is coming off a season in which he was the Yankees’ most consistent hitter not named Aaron Judge. But the Yankees have generally avoided signing players to extensions, and the last two they got done (Aaron Hicks and Luis Severino) both turned out poorly.
Asked whether the non-talks about a Torres extension will continue throughout the year, Cashman was noncommittal.
“Who knows? I don’t know,” he said. “As of right now, there hasn’t been any discussions on that.”
Even beyond throwing a no-hitter, Corey Kluber made his impact felt during his short stint as a Yankee.
Now that the two-time Cy Young winner has retired, the Yankees are in the very early stages of talking about bringing him back in some kind of an advisory role.
“Infant stage of that. We’ve had brief conversations,” said Cashman, who has not spoken directly to Kluber about an opportunity. “Corey’s an amazing, talented, retired pitcher now. Obviously threw a no-hitter for us and had a real big impact on our clubhouse when he was here. We’ve had beginning conversations.”
Kluber is interested in staying involved in the game, though the Yankees are not the only team pursuing his services.
But the 37-year-old lives in the Tampa area and is close with former Cleveland teammate Nick Swisher, who serves as a special adviser to Cashman. So Kluber has recently spent some time at the Yankees’ player development complex, according to Cashman.
Three months after the Yankees non-tendered him, Lou Trivino officially returned to the roster on Wednesday when he signed a oneyear, $1.5 million deal with a $5 million team option for 2025.
“I was telling everyone, ‘If I just show up, they have to give me a contract,’ ” Trivino said with a grin on Thursday, a day after taking his physical at Steinbrenner Field.
The Yankees told Trivino upon non-tendering him in November that they’d like to stay in contact and the veteran reliever was also hopeful for a return, which finally came to fruition this week when they gained 40-man roster flexibility by being able to put Jasson Dominguez on the 60-day injured list.
Trivino is currently rehabbing following UCL reconstruction surgery — he has advanced to throwing bullpen sessions — but believes he can be ready to pitch for the Yankees “at some point in the middle of the season.”