It didn’t take long for Gleyber Torres to be asked about the New York Yankees with his new team. Now a Detroit Tigers second baseman, Torres has endured the highs and lows and criticism of a big market and now he is reveling in what he called a “beautiful opportunity.

After decades of instituting the worst rule in professional sports, the Yankees decided enough was enough and revealed that they would ditch their facial hair rule. As weird as this is to say out loud,

Gleyber Torres figured someone had to be joking. “No way,” he said Friday morning in the Detroit Tigers clubhouse. “Is that true?” The news was right there on the New York Yankees’ official social media account.