On Tuesday, Trent Grisham decided to accept the qualifying offer worth $22.025 million tendered to him by the New York Yankees as a reward for his career-year in 2025. Grisham became the Yankees' everyday centerfielder and he made that position his, smashing a career-best 34 home runs and driving in 74 runs on an OPS of .812. As per FanGraphs, his contributions last year were worth 3.2 WAR — a performance that the Yankees then deemed worthy of trying to keep.

Perhaps the Yankees felt as though there would be a bigger market for Grisham in free agency, which is why they tendered the qualifying offer. Alas, Grisham doesn't exactly have the kind of track record that would make any other team commit that much money to him annually on a long-term deal.

Thus, according to Jon Heyman of the

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