By his own admission, Sonny Gray’s year and a half spent in New York pitching for the Yankees was a miserable one.

“I never wanted to go there in the first place,” said Gray in a Zoom call with reporters Tuesday, a week after being dealt to the Red Sox . “It just wasn’t a good situation for me. It wasn’t a great set-up for me and my family. I never wanted to go there. It just didn’t really work for who I am.

“I do appreciate my time there, because the last seven years in my life, I’ve been a better baseball player, husband and everything from having that experience and going through that. I just feel like I learned so much after going through that. I just wasn’t myself. I just didn’t feel like I was allowed to go out there and be Sonny.”

Boston, however, is different, which was part o

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