Why the Yankees dishing out $22 million to Trent Grisham isn’t a bad move at all

Twenty-two million dollars.

That is the kind of number that makes you spit out your morning coffee when you see it attached to the name Trent Grisham. It feels heavy. It feels like an overpay. When the Yankees extended the qualifying offer to their polarizing outfielder, they were likely playing a game of high-stakes poker, assuming he would decline it to chase a longer deal on the open market.

Grisham didn’t blink. He called the bluff. He took the cash.

Now the front office in the Bronx is staring at a one-year, $22 million commitment to a player who just posted some of the most confusing metrics in baseball. But before we grab the pitchforks and storm Hal Steinbrenner’s office, we need to look at the actual production. This might not be the disaster it feels like on Twitter.

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