A six-pack of thoughts on this young (very young) season:
1. I will begin with my first mea culpa of the 2025 campaign. I did not understand the Yankees tendering a contract to Trent Grisham for this season.
It was not just that he played poorly in 2024 with a .190 average and a 91 OPS-plus. It was not just because his laconic style was, at minimum, a bad body language look on a team that had issues with attentiveness and sharpness. It was not just because he was left-handed at a time when the Yankees had swung heavily that way and needed better righty balance/depth. It was not just because he cost $5 million at a time when Hal Steinbrenner was forcing baseball operations to count pennies to shoehorn other needs onto the roster.
It was all of that added together that just made it seem unwise to bring Grisham back. And with 24-ish weeks left in the season, that may still end up being true. But part of value is the timeliness of the value.
