Nah, why would you? Why would any of us?
He's Luis Torrens, the Mets starting catcher these days, now that the Mets' perennially injured chef catcher-of-the-future, Francisco Alvarez is, well, injured again.
Torrens was signed originally by the Yankees, at the age of just 17, in 2013.
Since then, his road to the big leagues has made Job's existence look like a walk in the park. A torn labrum held back his development in the Yanks' system, but nonetheless, he'd battled back to hit .250 with Charleston in the Sally League in 2016.
Some genius in the front office left him off the 40-man roster, though, and San Diego picked him up in the draft.
(Meaning, let me spell out, that we got NOTHING for him. N-O-T-H-I-N-G.)
Torrens wound up in Seattle, where sharing catching and DH duties in 2021, he hit .243, with 16 doubles and 15 homers in 108 games. Not exactly Bill Dickey, but positively Ruthian numbers compared with a certain catcher hitting .166 today.
In 2022...Torrens hurt his shoulder again, this time ending up at the bottom of a pig pile in a bench-clearing brawl. Still, he was back before the end of the season, to become the first position player in a long, long time (Rocky Colavito?) to win a game as a fill-in pitcher. (In the second game of a doubleheader that day, he caught, and got a hit.)
In 2024, the Mets picked Double-Duty Torrens up as a free agent. Since then, he's hit all of .227, with (very) limited power. Nonetheless—again, unlike somebody else we could name—he's turned himself into a stellar defensive catcher.
Among other things, here are his percentages of throwing out runners trying to steal, as opposed to the league average:
2024: Torrens, 46.4, NL, 203.
2025: Torrens, 40.8 (led league), NL, 23.2.
2026: Torrens, 44.0, NL, 25.0
Boy, makes you wonder what the Yanks could do if they ever hired a general manager.
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Cashman is the most incompetent GM in baseball. Everything wrong with this team goes back to one of the series of stupid moves he's made, along with the glaringly good moves he didn't make, but could have. He's got to be the biggest joke there is among executives. Though they are generally good at not calling out executive incompetence, fearing the day someone might do it to them.
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