How Brian Cashman Responded To New Red Sox Sonny Gray’s Yankees Hate

Sonny Gray quickly ignited one of MLB’s fiercest rivalries upon joining the Boston Red Sox.

Right after getting traded from the St. Louis Cardinals, Gray shared no qualms about competing against the New York Yankees. The starting pitcher called it “easy” to go to a place where everyone hates his former team and claimed that he “never wanted to go there in the first place.”

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman corroborated that assertion when recalling a conversation between him and Gray a year after the Bronx Bombers acquired him in 2017. Gray expected to get moved before the 2018 trade deadline.

“He said, ‘Hey, can we talk?'” Cashman said Sunday at MLB’s Winter Meetings, per MLB.com’s Bryan Hoch. “We closed the door and he said, ‘I thought you were going to trade me.’ Publicly,