{"id":111444,"date":"2025-12-30T22:52:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=111444"},"modified":"2025-12-30T22:52:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:52:59","slug":"yankees-nick-torres-could-bring-value-from-previous-stellar-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/12\/30\/yankees-nick-torres-could-bring-value-from-previous-stellar-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees&#8217; Recent Acquisition Could Bring Value From Previous Stellar Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/12\/30\/grishams-breakout-fluke-yankees\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Yankees<\/a> made their next big move within the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/12\/27\/five-yankees-prospects-majors-2026\/\" target=\"_self\">offseason market<\/a>. Over the weekend, the club announced the signing of <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=torres001nic\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Torres<\/a>, an outfielder and first baseman out of the Mexican League. He\u2019s their second signing from outside of the organization this offseason.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Watching the Yankees maneuver the offseason so far has been frustrating and raises questions. Yankees followers have been awaiting a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/12\/20\/bo-bichette-could-revive-infield-market-free-agency\/\" target=\"_self\">big splash<\/a>, be it a blockbuster trade or a newsworthy signing.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead, the club has mostly worked to retain players who played for them in 2025. Not that there is an issue with that, but these players are not exactly &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/12\/12\/yankees-must-add-another-bat-bellinger-tucker\/\" target=\"_self\">x-factors<\/a>.&#8221; They have not addressed the main concerns of the organization. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That brings us to Torres, whose signing brings a bit of spontaneity, curiosity, and confusion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>More About the Newest Yankees Acquisition, Nick Torres\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From Lakewood, California, Torres made his way into the Major League Baseball lens through the 2014 MLB Draft. He was drafted in the fourth round by the San Diego Padres after three college seasons at California Polytechnic State University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Torres has 11 seasons of professional baseball experience. He has five seasons in the minor leagues and six seasons in foreign professional leagues. The Yankees hitter has participated in both the Mexican League and the Mexican Pacific Winter League.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Where he drew strong attention to himself was in the Mexican League with Union Laguna. His success during his recent stint there caused professional scouts to zone in on his foreign career. He has been with Laguna since 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Yankees sign 2025 Mexican League MVP Nick Torres<\/p>\n<p>32-year-old right-handed first baseman and outfielder has hit .343 with a 1.025 OPS since 2021 for Algodoneros Uni\u00f3n Laguna. A 2014 4th round pick by the Padres, Torres&#8217; last MLB affiliation was Triple-A in 2018 for the Rangers <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uo1LQ3AlPT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/uo1LQ3AlPT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Talkin&#8217; Yanks (@TalkinYanks) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TalkinYanks\/status\/2005012301406241172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2024, Torres slashed a .341\/.424\/.550 with 109 hits, 22 extra-base hits, 15 home runs, 66 RBI, and 65 runs scored. His consistency was key in his recruitment back to Major League Baseball.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2025, Torres came out with very noticeable success. He built on his strong numbers from the previous year. The Mexican League star recorded a .347 batting average, a .425 on-base percentage, and a phenomenal .730 slugging percentage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 326 at-bats, he recorded 113 hits, 32 doubles, six triples, for 38 total extra-base hits. He slammed a stunning 27 home runs, driving in 79 runs. For this performance, Torres was the 2025 Mexican League Most Valuable Player.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Makeup and Synopsis\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The right-handed hitter is a very present bat in the box, standing 6\u20191\u201d at 220 lbs, doing it all from the right side. The Mexican League MVP is physical, with strength and good bat speed. He\u2019s very aggressive in the box and covers a lot of the zone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Torres is a primary pull-side hitter, taking advantage of fastballs and pitches belt high on the outside. He\u2019s very good at keeping his hands in to protect the inside part of the plate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Where Does He Fit?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s hard to put Torres on the field and in the lineup with total confidence that his skills and statistics will translate to MLB. Regardless, his fundamentals and approach are very much up to major league standards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, Torres can expect to be the backup at first base for Ben Rice. He may share time with Amed Rosario as the substitute. Torres will need to work his way up in the lineup and could see himself hitting in the seventh or eighth spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bronx is Nick Torres&#8217; oyster, and he has the opportunity to fully earn his MLB contract with average to above average performances for the Yankees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: David Reginek-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees made their next big move within the offseason market. Over the weekend, the club announced the signing of Nick Torres, an outfielder and first baseman out of the Mexican League. He\u2019s their second signing from outside of the organization this offseason.\u00a0 Watching the Yankees maneuver the offseason so far has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5126,"featured_media":103032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1071,35],"tags":[29212],"class_list":["post-111444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yankees","category-mlb","category-news","tag-nick-torres"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111449,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111444\/revisions\/111449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}