With the departure of Juan Soto last winter, the only thing left — besides an American League pennant, which isn’t nothing — left in the Bronx from the trade with the Padres was Trent Grisham. In the deal, the Yankees took on Grisham’s salary to get the Padres to accept a lesser prospect package than it otherwise might’ve taken to acquire a talent like Soto.

In his first year with the Yankees, Grisham got sparing playing time. He has mostly played center field in his career, but that spot was taken up by Aaron Judge, whose normal right field spot was taken up by Soto, who couldn’t DH all that much with Giancarlo Stanton needing that slot. Grisham did appear in 76 games in 2024, but his playing time was often stop-and-start, and he got off to a very slow start, hitting-wise.

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