November 27, 2025

59 thoughts on “Yankees.com: Trent Grisham Receives Qualifying Offer from Yankees”

  1. If Grisham comes back, I guess you could sign Alonso and do a lefty righty platoon at first, with Rice being the primary catcher, and split Wells and Rice behind the plate against lefties.

    Nah, that’s stupid.

    1. If Grisham comes back, then it’s still best to sign Tucker anyway, and meanwhile try to land a viable shortstop and an entire bullpen in return for Dominguez, Jones, and Volpe.
      Not that I want Dominguez to be traded – I’d keep him before Grisham – but if you’re not gonna play him then he’ll continue to stagnate.

  2. I think the QO indicates the Yankees are interested in keeping Grisham long term. This is insurance for if they can’t work out a deal before he officially becomes a FA.

    1. I don’t think it’s a big deal if Grisham leaves.
      I don’t think it’s a big deal if Grisham stays.

    1. I agree, coming off a career year offensively with declining defensive skills and an inability to hit LHPs 182/652 I’m a pass.

  7. I don’t see the point of a not-superb-fielding Grisham.
    Unless you think he’ll play like last year – and I really don’t – why have him block Dominguez?
    Develop talent and you can keep it or trade it or trade something else, that starts the cycle of being a consistently good team.
    For less money.

    1. Dominguez might not work out, but developing him has enormous potential, both in terms of potential long-term production and trade.
      Grisham might not work out, and if you play him you already have reduced defense and no prospects of anything long-term.
      AND Dominguez costs nothing. How is this even a discussion?

    2. The Martian is off to the DR this weekend. No word on what they’re doing about his right handed ineptness.

    3. How can Cashman be literally the ONLY one fooled by Grisham’s offense in 2025?
      (And, in concert with that, to ignore what’s happenening to his defense?)
      But maybe we’re imagining this… maybe.

  9. True Grish extension would be worse than Hixie’s. Cash might’ve got lucky with Hixie. So far there’s no indication Cash is thinking of extending Grish. The only way I could see where it might happen is if Cash lowballs Tucker and Bellinger and then extends Grish saying we tried.

    Michael Kay said that the $22.025 million value for 2026 would hamper the Yankees’ ability to make other moves should he accept the offer,

    2. Maybe, but I don’t recall Cashman ever offering a QO to a guy he didn’t want unless he was absolutely certain the guy wouldn’t take it. What would they get, a third round pick? That’s not worth a $22M bet.

    3. Just for discussion, Grisham’s fangraph’s expected contract is 3 years $50m. I can see him getting that, but no team is going to give him a bigger deal and he risks losing $30m by taking the QO and then reverting next season. The Yankees will get a pick between the 4th and 5th round. If they sign Tucker (or another QO player) they “lose their second- and fifth-highest selections, as well as $1 million from their international bonus pool for the upcoming signing period. If such a team signs multiple qualified free agents, it will forfeit its third- and sixth-highest picks as well.”

      If Cashman is planning on signing two qualified players, they lose a lot and need anything that they can get in return for Grisham.

  13. If you want to keep baseball free of the influence of gambling, a cap on wagers won’t be enough. You’ll need to ban gambling on baseball, ban ads for gambling during baseball games, and not move a historically important franchise to Las Vegas.

    My personal view is that there’s enough excitement in the randomness of baseball. It doesn’t need individual financial stakes to make it interesting to a wide audience. All that does is threaten the integrity of the game. Baseball loses its credibility and value by aligning with gambling enterprises.

    But then, baseball is a reflection of society, and the American economy these days seems to operate as a giant casino whose owners prey upon the public. Good thing the guy nominally in charge doesn’t have a track record of bankrupting his own casinos for personal profit at the expense of every other stakeholder.

    1. It just shouldn’t be that easy to bet. I’m ok with someone studying the teams, the pitchers, the matchups, the line, and making a bet on the outcome. What’s going on now is for most people compulsion not handicapping. But I bet it’s great for the pros.

    2. What’s really going on is far more interesting.

      Companies like FanDuel that have their origins in Britain as Flutter came over here and brought one of Europe’s most popular products – the “accumulator” – and called it the Same Game Parlay in the States.

      Company profits are derived in large part, on a huge influx of wannabes firing $10 SGPs in hopes of hitting lotto playoffs. It’s exacerbated by endless sportsbook marketing touting $5 -> $100k SGP wins.

      The rest of the bottom line is largely preying on hopelessly addicted whales. There are armies of casino hosts doing everything they can to keep their largest losing players on the hook and depositing more. Rebates, bonuses, the works.

      How pros are exploiting that dynamic is even MORE fascinating.

      Baseball, by volume, isn’t remotely a priority for sportsbooks. NFL and NBA rule the gambling roost. College football and college hoops are usually bigger slices of the pie.

      The integrity issues that have come to light aren’t unique to baseball, and aren’t anything that hasn’t been going on for decades. The scandals you heard about in the past weren’t one-offs, few and far between. They’re just the ones who got caught. The difference now is there’s big data involved in a way it never was, so it makes it easier for operators to spot unusual betting activity and track down perpetrators, because they have a huge financial incentive to do so in both rooting out angle shooters and also compliance with regulatory frameworks.

  15. Will Dodgers add Devin and Tucker to replace Kershaw and Conforto? I’ve read they’re the front runners for Tucker.

    NY Times: The Dodgers are once again seeking a reliever on the free-agent market, which includes at least one familiar target from last winter, per sources: two-time All-Star reliever Devin Williams:

    1. I’m really hoping this presumption that the Dodgers can snap their fingers and get any and every player they want is somewhat hyperbolized.

    1. By a Yankee he prob means the “New Yankees” ie The Dodgers. At least for now Cherington: Paul Skenes “Is Going To Be A Pirate In 2026”

  17. ESPN | Jeff Passan: A pass at hypothesizing the ideal transactions for each potential 2026 contender. With Passan projecting Kyle Tucker to Toronto, he gives the Yankees a reunion with outfielder Cody Bellinger, who could help patch up the team’s biggest area of need in center field (assuming Trent Grisham declines his qualifying offer). Passan is bullish on the team as a whole, giving particular praise to what he calls “a whale of a rotation” on paper.

    1. How can Bellinger “patch up” anything, he was there last year?
      Fortunately (for now), Passan won’t get to give anybody to anybody.

    2. it seems like we have seen cody’s ceiling, and it isn’t enough to break the bank on. the trade worked out, take the W, move on.

    1. I don’t get this. How could they fire him? He’s part of the team. It’s almost as if they don’t trust the system.

    2. They are a BIG fail in international free agents. They spend, they fail. They just realized this? Maybe Hal woke up? Maybe the abject failure of Roderick Arias played a major role.

    3. Kinda ridiculous to say Dominguez is a failure of international scouting. He’s a legit MLB player and looked like a superstar in his first cup of coffee. To the extent that he hasn’t lived up to the high expectations that were set for him, it’s a result of injuries (UCL, oblique, thumb) and a failure of MLB level coaching / management / utilization (RHB, LF).
      Sevy and Tanaka were great mid-2010s international finds (with Tanaka much more of a known quantity, but how many NPB stars don’t pan out in MLB?).
      Others have been hyped and not panned out – Estevan Florial comes to mind – but that happens with domestic players too (Drew Henson anyone?).
      Anyway, the lack of a championship since 2009 isn’t because of poor international scouting. It’s mainly because of poor roster construction and an organizational de-emphasis on fundamental baseball. And a pinhead nepo-baby manager covering for a pinhead GM covering for a pinhead nepo-baby owner.

  19. “He’s really a five-tool player, we just don’t find many athletes like that, and then also proven in every major market.”

    Scott Boras on Cody Bellinger:

  22. am i crazy if i would take a flier on a buxton trade?

    he’s at 3/45 but it could be worth up to 78 depending on bonuses. the twins must want to get out of that, how much could it cost to get it done, spencer jones and a pitcher? do it

    2. Buxton is a better player than the last CF that Minnesota sent to the Bronx (Hicks), but he’s also past 30 and has a long injury history (last year was only the third time he’s played in 100 games). With as awful a training/conditioning staff as the Yankees have, he might have as much trouble staying on the field as Ellsbury did.

  24. Acuna is a free agent next year if Tucker doesn’t get signed and a Buxton trade won’t happen.

    Have Hal and Cashman thought about getting the best players available? I can only imagine how cool it’d be to follow a team that tried that.

    2. Yeah, their very strong pursuit of Soto last year makes me think we WILL see them give Tucker a strong offer, as well.

      I think Cashman very much DOES realize that the superstar players make the difference. That’s why he signed Cole, and tried to sign Soto.

  28. Yay Judge.

    And congrats to Ohtani, who added this sick burn: “The biggest thing is obviously being able to win the World Series. That’s first and foremost. You know, it’s icing on the cake to be able to get an individual award, being crowned MVP, but I just really appreciate the support from all my teammates, everybody around me, my supporting staff.”

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