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 Luis Alfonso Torrens Saez was born May 2, 1996, in Valencia Venezuela. In 2012 Luis was signed by the AL New York club as an international free agent. After spending three years in their minor leagues, he tore his labrum, needed surgery & missed the 2015 season.  In 2016 he was selected as in the Rule V draft by the Cincinnati Reds then was quickly traded to the San Diego Padres. MLB Career: In 2017 he made the Padres roster as a backup catcher, despite never playing above the A ball level. He would make 31 starts at catcher appearing in 56 games batting just .163. He spent 2018 & parts of 2019 back in the minors. In August of 2020 Torrens was traded to the Seattle Mariners where he spent parts of three seasons.  In 2021 he began the season batting just .178 thru mid-May & was optioned to AAA. On June 15th, Torrens returned & in his first seven games collected nine hits with four multi-hit games. He stayed on sharing catchers' duties with Tom Murphy ...

Saturday May 4th, 1991: The Mets had finished in second place or better over the past seven seasons, with two NL East Titles & a World Championship in those years. But in 1991 the season turned out to be a very big disappointment, as they finished up in fifth place going 77-84. Howard Johnson was the team's biggest star, HoJo slugged his way to be the only Met in team history to lead the league in both HRs & RBIs in a single season. At this early point in the season things were still looking good, manager Bud Harrelson's Mets were at 14-9, in second place just one game behind the Pittsburgh Pirates. A good crowd of 38,413 came out to Shea Stadium to see the Mets host Roger Craig's struggling San Francisco Giants (8-15). The Giants had come off five straight winning seasons with two NL Weast titles & were the NL Champions two years prior. They too would disappoint with a 75-87 fourth place finish in 1991. On this afternoon the Mets Ron Darling (1-2) went ...