What it comes down to, as we survey the cosmic forces that will finally put Gleyber Torres in a Yankees uniform, is coverage.

The Yankees launched the season with coverage in favor of assigning their top prospect to the minor leagues. They actually gained a little coverage, in a manner that didn’t please them, on Monday night.

In between and moving forward, however? They are running out of coverage.

As long as Torres proves as soon as Wednesday that Monday’s mid-back tightness (which prompted his removal from a Triple-A game) was nothing more than a cold-weather scare, he should join the Yankees’ starting lineup as soon as Thursday at home against the Blue Jays.

Because, quite simply, the benefits of such a transaction quickly are outrunning the costs.

Torres owns a .366/.386/.537 slash line in 11 games for Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre — he didn’t play Tuesday as a precautionary measure — and when you throw in the 23 games he clocked for the RailRiders in 2017 before he suffered a season-ending injury, he rocks a still-stellar .328/.400/.484 at the level right below the big leagues. There’s little doubt his bat can play at the top, and he has received enough reps at third base (16 games) and second base (12 games) — plus spring training — that the natural shortstop should have a clue no matter where he stands in the infield.

And the reasons for keeping him down are melting away like Frosty the Snowman when he got trapped in the greenhouse by the evil magician.

Torres hit poorly in spring training, when the Yankees treated him as a candidate for the second-base job, slashing .219/.286/.313 in 13 Grapefruit League games. Now he’s hitting well.

After undergoing Tommy John surgery on his left elbow last June, it behooved Torres to ramp back up in the minor leagues before making the big leap. He has ramped back up.

In February, the Yankees acquired third baseman Brandon Drury from the Diamondbacks in a trade, and in March, they signed veteran free-agent second baseman Neil Walker. Drury sits on the disabled list, trying to prevail in a years-long bout with migraines and blurred vision, while Walker has been terrible, taking a .188/.264/.208 line into Tuesday night’s game against the Marlins.

The Yankees also were excited to trot out a pair of their own prospects, second baseman Tyler Wade and third baseman Miguel Andujar. Wade, knocked down by flu-like symptoms, has been dreadful, not starting Tuesday with an .094/.171/.156 line.

Andujar has displayed signs of life with two hits in each of the Yankees’ prior two games, both victories, lifting his line to .194/.231/.333 and another start at the hot corner on Tuesday.

“I feel like it’s been getting a little better,” Aaron Boone said of Andujar’s work. “The at-bats have been getting a little bit better. But we know the potential’s there for him. We know what he’s capable of swinging the bat. So we feel like if we can get him comfortable up here, he becomes a factor.”

Throw in Greg Bird’s right-ankle surgery creating another void, with Walker and Tyler Austin getting the bulk of the action at first base, and you have plenty of opportunity for Torres. While he has been starting mostly at third base, the Yankees could keep riding Andujar and option Wade to Scranton to try to get him right again.

Finally, the most discussed Torres barrier: His service time. By waiting until Wednesday to promote him, as they’ve now done, the Yankees ensured Torres can’t become a free agent until the 2024-25 winter. All of the aforementioned reasons provide coverage against the accusation that this strictly concerned service time. Now that, too, becomes a non-reason.

Let’s see what the young man has to offer. With this lineup, he needn’t be a savior, and if he falters, he can go back to Scranton and try again. The Marlins’ CEO Derek Jeter didn’t stick on his first trip to the big leagues, and he turned out all right.

If Torres arrives and reaches his ceiling, after all, he and his teammates will be getting all sorts of the coverage they want.