Some Yankees people were "somewhat surprised" by Trent Grisham's decision to accept the qualifying offer.

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00:00Trent Grisham has accepted the qualifying offer, which means he is back with the Yankees for $22

00:05million. I think there were some Yankees people that were somewhat surprised by this decision.

00:11Not going to say all of them. I think several understood that this was a realistic possibility.

00:16Obviously, Grisham had a fantastic season, so you can't really knock him in any sense. He had 34

00:22home runs. 21 of those home runs came on the road, so it's a legit excellent season. He did it under

00:29200 the three previous years. He did not play well in October, and for those reasons, I said I don't

00:35think they should offer him that $22 million qualifying offer. Does this affect their ability

00:40to sign Cody Bellinger? I mean, that is a big question right now. It certainly doesn't affect

00:45their ability to pursue Cody Bellinger, and they will pursue Cody Bellinger and hope to sign him,

00:52but now if they have Cody Bellinger, who's going to make presumably around $30 million plus $22 million

00:57for Grisham, how much money does that leave for the bullpen for maybe an extra starter to fill

01:03maybe a little bit on first base? Big question there, because we don't believe they want to go

01:07way over $300 million. They were a little bit over $300 million this year. They might have to. I mean,

01:12they may have no choice. I understand they aren't the Dodgers. I understand they have limits, but

01:17they're going to have to put together a better bullpen. They need a lefty in that bullpen,

01:21and they do need to firm up some other areas of weakness. I do think they do need a starter,

01:27and I do think that they'd still love to bring back Cody Bellinger. I do believe they will pursue

01:32Cody Bellinger, so this doesn't affect the pursuit of Bellinger. Does it affect their ability to sign

01:37Bellinger? We shall see. That is a $30 million, perhaps a year question.

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