Three-time All-Star Sonny Gray arrived from the St. Louis Cardinals to the Boston Red Sox through a major winter trade, and he wasted no time lighting a spark across the AL East. The Red Sox brought him in for stability, swagger, and experience , but Gray also came with something fans rarely hear so bluntly about the New York Yankees. In a conversation with The Boston Globe’s Tim Healey, he admitted he “never wanted to go in the first place.” That history now fuels a fresh edge as he steps straight into the heart of the Red Sox Yankees rivalry .

Sonny Gray didn’t hide his feelings . He even leaned into them. “It feels good to me to go to a place where it’s easy to hate the Yankees,” he said. The words carried extra weight because he lived that reality from 2017 to 2018, a stret

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