However, despite having a place in the 40-man roster, Grissom saw other infielders including Marcelo Mayer, Abraham Toro, David Hamilton and Nate Eaton, shuttle between Triple A and the major leagues. Grissom came to the conclusion.
“Sometimes, you just feel like, ‘I’m doing enough to play the show.’ I feel like I deserve it, but I feel like I’m ready,” Grisom said. “[But] I got to a point where I just accepted that I was not in the team plan. There were a few times that felt a little personalized.
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“But I know that the decision may be made for the right reasons, and I have to believe that, just accept the essence of it, attack it every day, not try to study what might be in the future. So, just my feet are my feet and then suck it and try to win for this team every day in order to win for this team. [in Worcester]. ”
Triple A is an uneasy level. The goal is any stop for minors, with the goal of leaving – temptingly close to Fenway Park, expanding awareness of the gap between where the player is and where he wants to go.
However, players realize that unless they show the characteristics they need to compete in the major leagues, they won’t go anywhere. For Grissom, there is reason to be encouraged by what happened in 2025, especially as opposed to what has been happening before.
A year ago, Grissom – He still microscoped in Sox's first season after Atlanta's final National League Championship Cy Young champion Chris Sale.
The industry itself is dazzling, not only because of the changes in the organization, but also because of its new defensive identity (he played second base for Sox in 2024 after most of the games with the Braves) and offensive approach.
“I came to this organization and I almost tried to make it somehow [myself] I'm not ready for someone to prepare somehow. “Grisom said. “I can't go there to play.” I tried to shake because they value it. They thought I had enough connection [that] If I try hard enough to swing…I'm not ready yet. Then the flu came and I knocked 20 pounds. ”
The flu is part of a series of physical dilemmas – a spring hamstring injury, illness, resulting in weight and strength losses as he will be Sox’s daily second baseman, and then another hamstring injury – which has left Grissom exhausted Grissom for most of 2024.
Grissom lacks power and his movements explode. He is mainly in baseball survival mode.
“I'm in a hole and it's dark,” Grisom said. “Obviously, you're trying to compete with the guys here and you're working hard and doing everything you can, but my body wasn't ready last year, that's all. They're throwing you away and expecting you to do a great job, which is hard, but it's an opportunity, but you can do your best, and it's hard when you're not actually ready.”
This year, Grissom meets the physical needs of the game. He leads Woosox with 88 games. He keeps weight all year round – a solid 220 pounds. He believes that returning to the game in shortstop allowed him to release him on the defensive end, allowing him to tear the infield and return to natural footwork. And he feels back to a method that works best for him, making a more conventional close connection (his hard rate is 41%, not only compared to the 31% he posted in Triple A in 2024, but also the 37% he had before the deal in 2023).
Grissom pulled the ball more frequently in 2025, but felt he was doing it without trying to force that result. He refused to attack.
“I can’t give it up, [because] I might fight [the Red Sox] Here soon. Who knows? “He laughed. Even earlier this year there was something about trying to do different things and trying different ways, and nothing really felt like it was real to me. I felt like I was in a place to play games, and then there was a game where I knew how to play games and figured out how to do that and still had the success I wanted.”
That's not enough to win the Red Sox's major league. So, with Thursday's trade deadline looming, Grisom's curiosity was ignited. Can he have an instant chance to play at the highest level of the game? Grissom recognizes that he has neither control nor control the answer.
“I'm exactly where my feet are, and wherever I'm ready for the next opportunity. Hope it's here,” Grisom said. “If not, if I'm not in their plan, then I'm going anywhere, hopefully I've got a chance there. If not, I just have to be the place where my feet are, grind and ready for 2026.”
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