Sonny Gray rips Yankees after Red Sox trade: ‘Easy to hate’
NY Post
Not everyone wants to wake up in the city that never sleeps.
Veteran starter Sonny Gray has returned to the American League East as a member of the Boston Red Sox, acquired last week in a trade with the St. Louis Cardinals.
Introduced to the Boston media Tuesday morning, the former Yankees right-hander reflected on his turbulent tenure in The Bronx and emphasized his excitement to be on the other side of the most historic rivalry in sports.
“It feels good to me to go to a place where it’s easy to hate the Yankees,” Gray said.
The Yankees acquired Gray, now 36, from the Athletics less than an hour before the trade deadline in 2017.
“I never wanted to go there in the first place,” Gray, who waived his no-trade clause to join the Red Sox, said Tuesday.
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