Aaron Judge and Gerrit Cole are two of baseball’s best in the power-hitting and starting pitching realms, but the New York Yankees are behind the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays after a World Series loss in 2024 to the former and an ALDS elimination this past October at the hands of the latter.
NYY is a player for most free agents this offseason, but they handicapped their spending power a bit on Trent Grisham’s $22 million qualifying offer.
That had one fan who will go down in history, no matter what the outfielder does in 2025.
In a segment on WFAN airwaves, caller Jon from Maspeth, Queens, launched a visceral attack at Brian Cashman that he’s wasting Judge and Cole’s primes by wasting money on guys like Grisham.
“This moron, Brian Cashman is an idiot, he bit off more than he can chew! He read the wrong cards, now he’s gotta deal with this one-hit wonder, overpaid bum, Trent Grisham $22 million when a couple more million dollars could have got you Cody Bellinger. Now we gotta hear Hal Steinbrenner…’payroll payroll.’ We got Aaron Judge and Gerrit Cole in their god damn prime and we’re wasting it with Trent Grisham,” the caller loudly exclaimed.
Trent Grisham hasn't convinced Yankees fans yet
Grisham had, on paper, a ho-hum season this past year: a.235 average, 34 home runs, 74 RBIs, and a.348 OBP. It was his second-best statistical season during his seven-year career, though.
Maybe the caller has a point, to a degree. Grisham has a no-trade clause and can’t just be pawned off at the trade deadline as an expiring contract as a result of accepting his one-year qualifying offer.
It’s nothing to get that angry about, because Cashman may have some tricks up his sleeve this offseason in the international free agency market. Cody Bellinger could also be re-signed despite Grisham’s deal, though the Los Angeles Dodgers are in hot pursuit of re-signing him.
If Cashman mostly runs this past season’s squad back, and the results are similar, though, there will be similar calls in the future across New York sports talk radio.