Overview
- New York has until today’s qualifying-offer deadline to decide on a one-year, $22.025 million offer for the 29-year-old outfielder.
- Extending the offer would yield draft-pick compensation if he signs elsewhere, though he could accept the deal, and MLB free agency opens at 5 p.m. ET.
- Grisham’s 2025 surge featured 34 home runs, an .811 OPS, 82 walks and a .348 on-base percentage as he logged regular leadoff at-bats against right-handers.
- Defensive indicators trended down with minus-11 Defensive Runs Saved in center field and noted loss of speed raising sustainability questions.
- Contract projections diverge sharply — from ESPN’s four years, $90 million to The Athletic’s two years, $30 million — complicating plans that also involve Cody Bellinger, Aaron Judge and prospects Jasson Domínguez and Spencer Jones, with Bellinger ineligible for a qualifying offer and a Grisham acceptance still tradable.