Aaron Boone still believes Gleyber Torres can turn it around after his Yankees reset

TORONTO — Gleyber Torres’ mental reset may be over by Friday, with an opposing left-hander on the mound.Until then, Aaron Boone gave Torres a second straight day out of the lineup Thursday in hopes of finally shaking the Yankees’ second baseman loose from his miserable start to the season.Boone said he has left it up to Torres and the hitting coaches to decide whether he uses the time off to get away from the game (as much as one can during the season) or dive deeper into his work on his swing.But one thing was not in question for the manager.“I know how much Gleyber cares,” Boone said Thursday at Rogers Centre before the Yankees opened a four-game set against the Blue Jays.

“I know how hard he’s working behind the scenes.But I’ve also been in his shoes where the game’s hard and it can beat you down.

I think we’re on the same page with that.“I’m looking forward to what I know is going to be a resurgence for him at some point.I continue to say, he’s obviously a really important part of our team and our lineup in giving length to our lineup.

He’s too good a hitter to be held down for too long.”After being the Yankees’ most consistent healthy hitter from start to finish last season, Torres has been a shell of himself this year in a costly turn of events while batting .215 with a .628 OPS through 80 games.Torres has repeatedly said that his tough start has nothing to do with his being in his contract year, a situation that could understandably compound itself once a few rough weeks pile up.There was a stretch recently where it looked like Torres might be coming out of it, batting .266 with a .808 OPS in 30 games from May 12 to June 13.But in nine games since then, he has sunk right back into his offensive malaise, batting just 2-for-29 (.069) with a .401 OPS.It has coincided with a brutal stretch for the Yankees at large, entering Thursday having lost nine of their last 12 games with a lineup that has struggled to produce outside of i...