Sonny Gray , the newest member of the Boston rotation , is now on the other side of the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry after pitching for the Bronx Bombers in 2017 and ‘18.

And it sounds like he is really looking forward to facing New York with his new club.

“What did factor into my decision to come to Boston, it feels good to me to go to a place now where, you know what, it’s easy to hate the Yankees, right?” Gray said in a video conference with reporters on Tuesday. “It’s easy to go out and have that rivalry and go into it with full force, full steam ahead. I like the challenge.”

Gray became a Yankee ahead of the 2017 Trade Deadline when the A’s dealt him as the centerpiece of a four-player swap. But he scuffled to a 4.51 ERA over 41 appearances (34 starts) before the Yanks shipped him

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