Luis Torrens


Luis Alfonso Torrens Sáez is a Venezuelan professional baseball catcher for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball.

Career

New York Yankees

Torrens signed with the New York Yankees as an international free agent on July 2, 2012. He made his professional debut in 2013 for the Gulf Coast League Yankees. In 2014, he played for the Charleston RiverDogs, Gulf Coast Yankees and Staten Island Yankees.
In March 2015, Torrens had surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder, which ended his 2015 season. He returned from the injury in 2016 and played in 52 games with Staten Island and Charleston.

San Diego Padres

In the 2016 Rule 5 draft, the Cincinnati Reds selected Torrens from the Yankees. Immediately after taking Torrens, the Reds traded him to the San Diego Padres. Torrens joined the Padres' Opening Day roster as a 20-year old, never having played above single-A. Torrens, along with Héctor Sánchez, served as a back-up to catcher Austin Hedges during the 2017 season. He started 31 games for the Padres overall, but saw less time as the season progressed, making only 6 starts and 29 plate appearances over the final two months of the season. Torrens finished 2017 with 20 hits in 123 at-bats, including 3 doubles and a triple.
Torrens played for Magallanes in the Venezuelan Winter League in the MLB off-season. During spring training in 2018, Torrens battled an oblique injury, and then was optioned to the San Antonio Missions of the Double-A Texas League on March 14. Torrens played for the Amarillo Sod Poodles of the Texas League in 2019, and was promoted to the major leagues on September 16.