The Boston Red Sox traded for Sonny Gray from the St Louis Cardinals to start the offseason. That reignited a rivalry between Gray and the New York Yankees , dating back to his ill-fated run in pinstripes in 2017. Yankees GM Brian Cashman made a claim about Sonny Gray that his agent, Bo McKinnis, disputed to The Athletic's Brendan Kuty.

“When he was with the A’s, he was telling our minor-league video coordinator, ‘You got to get me over to the Yankees,’” Cashman said, per Kuty. “‘Tell Cash, get me over to the Yankees. I want out of Oakland. I want a championship.’ Cashman said Gray was ‘communicating that to a number of different people … that he wants to be a Yankee.'”

Cashman then said it was after the 2018 trade deadline that Gray said he never wanted to be a Yankee. He had be

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