Yankees’ Trent Grisham just matched Mickey Mantle in bizarre power stat

Trent Grisham has had a remarkable season, going from DFA candidate to key cog in a powerful New York Yankees lineup in 2025. His career year has been a pleasant surprise for the Yankees and should have him in line to make a nice chunk of change in 2026. His magical season has also put him in the rarified company of an inner circle Yankees legend, Mickey Mantle.

Ironically, Mantle's name has been in the news a lot recently, with Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh breaking his single-season record for most home runs by a switch-hitter, a mark that had stood for 64 years. That historic moment has generated a lot of propaganda to support the erroneous narrative that Raleigh deserves the AL MVP over Aaron Judge, despite no other stat going in Raleigh's favor.

Lost in this shuffle is the fact that Grisham has actually matched Mantle in another, much more whimsical, record — one that serves to highlight just how severe the 28-year-old's career-best power surge has been.

Trent Grisham ties Yankees legend Mickey Mantle in weird home run record

Over the last two months, Grisham has been on a homer spree, clubbing 16 since July 22. That means nearly half of his 33 homers on the year have come over his last 53 games. During that time, Grisham has not recorded a single extra base hit that was not a home run, tying him with Mantle as the only two players in baseball history to have a 50-game stretch in which they hit at least 15 homers without a single other extra base hit.

Mantle's epic home run barrage came in the 1958 season, where from June 2 - July 25 he'd clock 21 dingers without a double or triple in the mix over what was a 55-game span. Over those 55 games, the immortal center fielder would post a .282/.446/.655 line. He'd finish that season with a .304/.443/.592 line, a league-leading 42 homers, 21 doubles, and a lone triple. He'd also finish fifth in the AL MVP voting that year.

Grisham's streak hasn't seen him reach that unearthly level of production. The lefty-swinging outfielder has slashed .212/.326/.455 over his 53-game streak. On the season, he has just nine doubles and a triple, showing just how long-ball dominant he has been.

Grisham's power evolution has been unique. In 2023, his last year in San Diego, he whacked 31 doubles to just 13 home runs, and now in 2025 most of those would-be doubles are flying over the outfield fence.

This record doesn't mean much except for a chance to appreciate the weirdness that is baseball, but in a way it speaks to what kind of hitter Grisham has become. He may not ever be a batting champ, but he's developed a keen eye at the plate, drawing walks 13.5% of the time.

He regularly works the count, and if he gets a mistake in the zone he is going to punish it, leading to weird streaks like this.

All in all, Grisham is having the season of his life, and now he can say that he's done something that only one other player in history has accomplished before him. When your only company is Mickey Mantle, you've got to feel pretty good about yourself.