Trent Grisham question looms over Yankees' 2026 season
New York may not have expected to have Grisham back.
Trent Grisham question looms over Yankees' 2026 season originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The New York Yankees may not have been expecting to have Trent Grisham back on their roster at all this season.
They extended him the free agent qualifying offer, yes, but most players don't accept that. It would've gotten the Yanks a compensatory draft pick if Grisham signed elsewhere. Grisham, coming off the best season of his MLB career, did accept that qualifying offer, though, and so he's back in the Bronx for the 2026 season.
He almost immediately became one of the biggest X-factors to the season ahead for the Yankees. Never before had Grisham hit as well as he did in 2025. Could he do it again?
If he can, the Yankees can be potent. If Grisham can't, he's being paid a lot of money to block a couple of promising younger outfielders, Jasson Dominguez and Spencer Jones. MORE: Cal Raleigh was supposed to play for the Braves And does anyone really know what's going to happen?