Padres center fielder believes he learned lessons enduring a season in which he had one of the lowest batting average in history
A couple mornings before he began what has so far been a spring uprising, Trent Grisham reclined in the chair in front of his locker here and talked candidly and dispassionately about a year he’d like to forget but knows he needs to remember.“There’s a bunch of ‘what ifs’ and how you think it is,” Grisham said of the spiral of 2022. “I mean, the pressure of it, it’s your dream, the 25 other guys relying on you, playing for a city, playing for yourself, playing for family back home.
There was hope at the end. After a season that could hardly have been worse, at the time when it was more important than ever, Grisham was one of the Padres’ best players. “It just showed me that I can do what I think I can do in this league,” Grisham said of those first two postseason series. “I can play well under high scrutiny, under a lot of pressure, and I can help the team win on any given night. So just that after all that struggle for almost six months, it felt good to be able to help the team in that way.”
Grisham has swung at 10 of 14 pitches in the strike zone in two games. That seems at least indicative of a commitment to be selectively aggressive. He watched a higher percentage of pitches in the zone than all but two players in 2022. His single on the first pitch Saturday was a rarity as well, as he swung at the first pitch of a plate appearance that was in the strike zone a meager 27.8 percent of the time in ’22.
A third winter of working with new teammate Matt Carpenter near their Fort Worth homes provided some assurance. A veteran of 12 seasons, Carpenter has always been impressed by Grisham’s bat-to-ball prowess.
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