Almost as soon as the Boston Red Sox traded for Sonny Gray , there were Red Sox fans expressing fears that Gray in 2026 could be a repeat of 2025 Walker Buehler — a veteran right-hander signed to a one-year, $20 million-ish deal who ends up flopping.

And while those concerns come from an understandable place, alongside worries about Gray’s advanced age (36), these are two completely different pitchers, and their arrivals in Boston aren’t as comparable as many assume.

Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow actually acknowledged the Buehler-Gray comparison recently, as MLB.com’s Ian Browne wrote about on Saturday.

“Obviously we had Walker here last year,” Breslow said, per Browne . “I don’t think anyone would say that it worked out as well as we had hoped. But Sonny, he’s got a

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