{"id":581907,"date":"2026-02-19T23:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/581907\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T23:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T23:37:18","slug":"trent-grisham-is-worth-a-22-million-yankees-mirage-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/581907\/","title":{"rendered":"Trent Grisham is worth a $22 million Yankees mirage check"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA \u2014 Has a team ever angered so much of its fan base by acquiring or retaining a player off of a strong season as the Yankees have with Trent Grisham?<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s see if I can follow the bouncing ball of grievance: The offering of and the acceptance<\/a> of the $22.025 million qualifying offer by Grisham was going to keep Hal Steinbrenner from re-signing Cody Bellinger.<\/p>\n

Bellinger, though, was re-signed, so the whining morphed instantly into the opening of the Free Jasson Dom\u00ednguez society. And it is true, there is now no room on a healthy roster for Dom\u00ednguez, but: 1. These are the must-win Yankees, not, say, the Rockies, where Dom\u00ednguez could prove or disprove he is a full-time major leaguer. 2. A situation will arise this year in which Dom\u00ednguez will get a chance to try to do what Grisham actually did to him last year \u2014 play him off the field.<\/p>\n

And Grisham did that by hitting 34 homers, with a 125 OPS-plus and the 11th-best walk percentage in the majors (14.1) to rank between Kyle Tucker and Cal Raleigh. Do I think Grisham can repeat this? Probably not. But if a big-market team cannot invest $22 million for one year to see if he can at least get close, then they really should close up shop in The Bronx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 Has a team ever angered so much of its fan base by acquiring or retaining a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2376],"tags":[5,4,1690,62,2548,2547,185,430,428,151,122,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-581907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-yankees","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkyankees","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-spring-training","18":"tag-trent-grisham","19":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116099930563191820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}