On Tuesday, Sonny Gray greeted Red Sox Nation with exactly what it wanted to hear. Here’s the money quote:

“It feels good to me to be able to go to a place now where it’s easy to hate the Yankees.”

Not only is the quote bellicose, but the delivery leaves little room for epexegesis:

Now of course, there’s one school of thought that he’s just pandering to his new audience, and perhaps that’s true. But there’s also a pretty established history of Gray not being too pleased with his time in New York. This is particularly apparent when diving into the pitching style Larry Rothschild and the Yankees wanted to push on him during his disastrous season there. One of my favorite nuggets regarding that comes from this Fangraphs interview back in 2023 when Gray said “I don’t think everyone had it t

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