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.

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.

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 took some convincing to believe the Yankees’ facial hair policy reversal. The former Bronx Bombers second baseman reportedly wasn’t sure if he was being pranked when he found out about the rule change from a group of reporters on Friday.

Robinson Cano was on track to be a lifelong Yankee after spending his first nine seasons with the club that signed him in 2001. He made his debut in 2005 and played in the Bronx until '13 before the Seattle Mariners snatched him away the following offseason with a 10-year, $240 million contract.