DETROIT – Second baseman Gleyber Torres is returning to the Tigers for the 2026 season.

Torres Tuesday accepted $22.025 million qualifying offer. Torres, who will turn 29 next month, is coming off an All-Star season. He played in 145 games and started every postseason game. He finished with a .358 on-base average, fourth in the American League and tops among second basemen.

“Nobody has a better approach at the plate than Gleyber,” Tigers president Scott Harris said last month. “Nobody has better bat to ball skills than Gleyber. His addition to this team (last winter), in many ways, powered a lot of the offensive production we saw for the first five months.”

That production waned down the stretch (he hit .209 in September) and after the season he announced he’d been playing with a sports

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