Yankees Slugger Reveals Why Subway Series Against Mets Would Be ‘Special’

New York’s two MLB teams will play in their respective league’s championship series.

While the New York Yankees must await the outcome of the ALDS game with the winner of the Detroit Tigers vs. the Cleveland Guardians on Saturday before learning who they face in the ALCS, the New York Mets learned last night they will. will play the top-seeded Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS.

Regardless of who the Yankees play, this is MLB’s closest to a Subway World Series since the Yankees and Mets faced off in 2000.

Although fans of these two teams don’t usually love each other too much, an Oct. 12 article by Dan Martin of the New York Post revealed why Yankees second baseman Gleyber Torres is eager for another Series to happen Subway World Cup.

“I don’t want to get too ahead of ourselves because we have a lot to do first, but it would be special to see (Mets head coach Carlos Mendoza) in a subway series in the World Series,” Torres said. the article “Not just for us, but for New York. It would be amazing.”

Torres and Mendoza have a relationship that began years before Torres was called up to the Yankees and Mendoza was the Yankees’ bench coach (a position he held from 2018 to 2023).

Torres was traded to the Yankees in 2016 as part of a deal that sent Aroldis Chapman to the Chicago Cubs. Martin’s article notes that Mendoza was a defensive instructor in the Yankees’ minor league system at the time.

“(Mendoza) was the first guy I really got to know with the Yankees and he helped me more than anyone when I got here,” Torres added. “And then he was with me my whole major league career until this year.”

Torres later added, “(Mendoza) always told me, ‘It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.’ And that’s what happened with both of them this year: The Mets started really slow and then played really well , and they’re in the playoffs right now and I played better in the second half and hopefully in the postseason.

While this is a heartwarming story, Yankees fans will expect their second baseman to be all business if the Subway World Series comes to fruition.