Vaughn Grissom Slashes .342/.413/.526 in 13 Games for Angels

vaughn grissom has flipped the script in Los Angeles, hitting.342/.413/.526 over 13 games for the Angels after Boston moved on from him. The start gives the Angels a useful infield bat at three spots and leaves Boston watching a player it once acquired for Chris Sale produce elsewhere.

Grissom’s Angels surge

Grissom has gone 13 games deep with five RBIs and four doubles for the Angels, giving them production at first base, second base and third base. The line is a sharp turn from what he did in Boston last season, when he played 31 games and hit.190/.246/.219.

He has also shown the bat he carried before the trade carousel started. Across 64 games with the Atlanta Braves in 2022 and 2023, he hit.287, which is the level Boston expected when it acquired him ahead of the 2024 season.

Boston’s return on the deal

Boston acquired Grissom in exchange for Chris Sale, then never promoted him back to the major league club in 2025 before sending him to Los Angeles. The Red Sox received prospect Isaiah Jackson in the deal, and he is hitting.238 at High-A Greenville.

That return sits alongside Boston’s broader offensive slide. The club is 12-19, and Caleb Durbin has not helped the cause at third base, hitting.172/.261/.263 with one homer and 11 RBIs in 29 games for the club. Durbin is 26 years old and has been the starting third baseman.

Angels get a movable bat

For the Angels, Grissom’s value is practical, not theoretical. He has already filled in at first, second and third base, and the 13-game stretch gives them a contact-driven option they did not have when Boston first made the move.

For Boston, the trade looks harder to defend by the week. Grissom is producing at a level the Red Sox did not get from him in 2024, while the player they received, Jackson, is still at High-A Greenville and Durbin has not stabilized the hot corner in the majors.