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00:00He's had a great season, and he's the forgotten man in the Juan Soto trade,

00:03and that is Trent Grisham.

00:05Guy's on pace for 30 home runs this year.

00:07He's been the leadoff guy for them mostly this season.

00:10Time and time again, whether it's a grand slam, it's a clutch home run,

00:15I don't know what it is, Joel.

00:16His approach looks better.

00:17He just looks like a completely different player in terms of the at-bats

00:21and plate appearances.

00:22From the field, you still get a little frustrated where he looks like he loafs

00:26in center field on some fly balls and balls that have high catch probability

00:30that he doesn't get to.

00:32But overall, for the player himself, he's been a very important piece

00:36for this Yankees team.

00:38I don't know, Joel.

00:39Do you have a comp for Trent Grisham?

00:41And the larger question is, what do the Yankees do with Trent Grisham

00:45because he is a free agent at the end of the year,

00:48and do they extend him the qualifying offer?

00:51Yeah, there's a lot there.

00:53So let's start with something that I think is important.

00:56The Yankees lost Juan Soto, and if they don't have a successful season this year,

01:02I don't think it's going to be about the loss of Juan Soto.

01:06Again, because I know what Yankee fans think, they're like,

01:12Cashman sucks at everything.

01:13Well, Cody Bellinger and Trent Grisham are on Cashman's ledger also, right?

01:20Like they were, Cashman got Grisham included in the trade,

01:25and there was a real tough decision, I think, for me in the offseason,

01:29whether they even tendered him a contract coming off a bad year,

01:31and they tendered him, and they got Bellinger.

01:33And those two guys together, and even independently,

01:37their numbers stand up.

01:38You know, it's like their numbers clearly stand up to Kyle Tucker,

01:41who would have cost them Luis Hill in a trade.

01:44So, like, all good for the Yankees there.

01:48Grisham is the kind of player, like, again, he's a Yankee in a lot of ways.

01:54He is really talented.

01:57He is really talented.

01:59There's a smoothness, obviously, to his game.

02:02He is not one of those guys who blinks under pressure.

02:05We saw that, right?

02:06He played great against the Mets as a padre in their playoff series a couple of years ago.

02:10He obviously has a bad moment in his history where he –

02:15Juan Soto's Nationals in 2019, one of the reasons they get through the Brewers

02:22is he – Grisham misplays a ball in right field.

02:25But, you know, that was not a really easy play.

02:30But, yeah, I think that the other part of it is all fascinating

02:36and is going to make all our offseason shows fascinating.

02:39Yeah.

02:40But, to me, it's like, if you know you're keeping Bellinger,

02:44you don't have to keep Grisham.

02:47If you don't know, do you have to keep Grisham?

02:49If you really believe in Spencer Jones, do you have to keep Grisham?

02:55So, I think that there's all of that.

02:59I think there's a media question.

03:03The qualifying offer will probably be about $22 million.

03:06I think if the Yankees put the qualifying offer –

03:10they can't put it on Bellinger, who's already had it, right?

03:13You can only have it once.

03:14I think if the Yankees put it on Bellinger – on Grisham.

03:18I think there's a fairly good chance he might take it.

03:21Because, like, let's play the game.

03:23Does he get three at 39, three at 42, three at 45?

03:30What's his number in the offseason?

03:32Two at 32?

03:34Like, off of this year, but, like, not a great body of work, not a great body.

03:41Like, you know, like, you've got to wonder how his body's going to age.

03:44Could you play the – this is that walk-year season that fools you?

03:51And he goes immediately back to being who he was the minute he signs a contract.

03:56I don't know.

03:58The sport is clamoring for guys who could hit.

04:00So, I think he's going to get a deal, and I think somebody will buckle and give him three.

04:05Let's say it's three at 45.

04:09Does he go for three at 45?

04:11And, again, remember, there'll be a little chilling of the market if the Yankees put the qualifying offer on him.

04:16Or is he better off doing one at 22?

04:19I think it's something he'd have to think about, worrying if he's even getting to three at 45 in this marketplace.

04:25But who knows?

04:26Maybe I'm wrong.

04:27Maybe he'll get three at 60.

04:28Maybe people will look at him and say, center fielder who hits home runs and draws walks.

04:32Shit, I'll give that a lot of money.

04:33I just – if I were guessing today, my guess would be three at 42.

04:38Like, that would probably be about the number for him.

04:41I've been right on some of these.

04:43I've been wildly wrong on some of these over the years.

04:46But you would think he has a market, though, right?

04:48He has a pretty good market, considering the guy almost hit – I mean, I understand maybe –

04:53I think he has a great market for one or two years when he'll absolutely want three, four, or five.

05:00Like, it's a little bit – like, if Pete Alonso puts himself out as a two-year player, he has a gigantic market.

05:06But if he puts himself out as a five-, six-, and seven-year player, he has a lot less a market.

05:12So, I think the question is, Grisham is – this is – he had the right year at the right time.

05:18He's 28 years old.

05:20Plays a position that is of great need.

05:23He's 28 years old.

05:25Body-wise, you think he's 28 years old?

05:28Like, would you bet on him to stay healthy?

05:31History would say he's not going to stay healthy.

05:33Right.

05:36And, you know, there are probably some guys, it seems, who will be like, I just can't have a player who moves like that in the field where –

05:44like, whatever the reality is, the body language is telling me something.

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