ORLANDO, Fla. -- As the Yankees busied themselves at the 2018 Trade Deadline, lining up a trio of veteran arms to bolster a playoff push, Sonny Gray looked around the clubhouse and wondered aloud why he was still there.

That’s according to general manager Brian Cashman, who revealed the previously unreported conversation Sunday at the Winter Meetings in response to Gray’s recent comments upon joining the Red Sox, in which the right-hander said of New York: “I never wanted to go there in the first place.”

It’s true, Cashman says, but with a caveat -- Gray had said the exact opposite while he was with the Athletics.

After the 2018 Deadline passed, Cashman said Gray asked him for a private chat. That took place in the Yankee Stadium office of Chad Bohling, the team’s senior director of o

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