The Yankees are reporting that Yankees’ top prospect, Gleyber Torres, has torn a ligament in his non-throwing elbow and will require Tommy John surgery.  The Yankees expect him to be ready for spring training in 2018 (along with Greg Bird perhaps!).  Bird is seeing a specialist tomorrow.

SU says that this is clearly the curse of Chase Headley.  Out of fear of losing his starting spot in the line-up, he has placed a curse on Torres and this is the result.  Too bad as it would have been exciting to see Torres up here this summer and Headley having to compete for playing time.  Now he can relax and know that his .240 batting average is better than anyone else in the system and that a season stat line of 8 home runs and 50 rbis will be seen as satisfactory.

SU refuses to go to the dark side and will continue to root the Yankees on.  But the road continues to get harder with no Bird, Headley in there everyday and even worse, Chris Carter in there everyday.  As I speak, Carter just swung and missed on his day off.

Here is a trivia question from long-time subscriber J. Levine and actually one that the Google answering subscribers may even have trouble getting right (by the way, this is why SU rarely puts out trivia questions as too many people take the easy way out).  Here you go:

“Which former Yankee player is soon going to be leading the American League in batting once he has the minimum number of at bats to show up in the League leaders?”

Hint: the answer is not Jesus Montero.  Another hint: it’s not obvious.

The first person to answer correctly will win his choice of the SU fleece or the SU windbreaker.  2nd place is a 2-year fully paid SU subscription.  Ready?  Go!