Overview
- At the Winter Meetings, the Yankees GM said Gray told him right after the 2018 trade deadline that he never wanted to be in New York and that he hated the city.
- Cashman recounted that Gray blamed agent Bo McKinnis for advising him to say he wanted to be a Yankee to avoid hurting his free-agency value.
- Gray, introduced by the Red Sox on Dec. 2 after a trade from the Cardinals, said he never wanted to go to New York and called it a poor setup for his family.
- New York acquired Gray from Oakland in July 2017, removed him from the rotation in August 2018, and traded him to Cincinnati in January 2019.
- Cashman said the Yankees believed Gray wanted in because he conveyed that desire to a former Vanderbilt roommate who worked for the club, and the renewed dispute now trails him into the Boston–New York rivalry.