Yankees spring training: Gleyber Torres’ future and 5 more things learned on Day 1

TAMPA, Fla. — Gleyber Torres can’t escape it, though not for a lack of effort. When the Astros swept the Yankees in last year’s American League Championship Series, he checked the reaction on social media. The 26-year-old was met with reports that the Yankees had been contemplating trading him — and comments from some fans who didn’t hate the idea.

“That’s why I stopped checking,” Torres said.

But when Torres entered the clubhouse at George M. Steinbrenner Field on Wednesday — the first official day of spring training — the uncertainty of his future was right in his face.

Just a couple lockers down from Torres was Oswald Peraza, a top prospect who seems likely to at least make the Opening Day roster, if not become the starting shortstop. Across from Torres, in a bank of lockers in the middle of the clubhouse, was a spot for Anthony Volpe, another top shortstop prospect whose big-league readiness may be only a bit behind Peraza.

If Torres wasn’t going to read about his shaky ground online, he was going to feel it every day. The Yankees have players they see as successors to Torres, once a top prospect himself. The Cubs traded Torres to the Yankees when he was 19 years old, and since then he’s made millions of dollars, gotten married to his wife, Elizabeth,…