ORLANDO, Fla. — You betcha all those fresh quotes from legendary 2017-18 Yankees bust Sonny Gray made their way to the big city that the three-time All-Star right-hander despises.

It’s easy to hate the Yankees?

He never wanted to play in New York?

Five days after Gray trashed his time in the Bronx during his first interview since an offseason trade from the Cardinals to the Red Sox, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman was given an opportunity to retaliate.

Boy, did he ever.

On the opening day of the GM meetings, Cashman was asked Sunday night if he was aware how “anti-Yankee” Gray was in New York.

“At the end, he was,” Cashman said. “I saw his comments.”

That was the start of an answer that latest almost three minutes, a response to Gray’s telling Red Sox writers last week, “

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