{"id":30783,"date":"2025-12-04T12:57:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/red-soxs-sonny-gray-its-tempting-to-fall-into-the-trap-of-hating-the-yankees\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T17:57:57","slug":"red-soxs-sonny-gray-its-tempting-to-fall-into-the-trap-of-hating-the-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/12\/04\/red-soxs-sonny-gray-its-tempting-to-fall-into-the-trap-of-hating-the-yankees\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox&#8217;s Sonny Gray: &#8220;It&#8217;s tempting to fall into the trap of hating the Yankees&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sonny Gray, recently acquired by the Red Sox from St. Louis, has quickly made an impact against Boston&#8217;s biggest competitor and has begun connecting with the team&#8217;s supporters. Gray shared with Boston&#8217;s Press Score that it&#8217;s easy to be passionate about hating the Yankees, reflecting on his previous time with them. Originally traded from the Oakland Athletics to the Yankees in 2017, Gray had a career-best 3.72 ERA that year but struggled in 2018 before moving to the Cincinnati Reds. He was an All-Star with the Reds and has earned that honor three times throughout his career. Last year, Gray pitched 180.2 innings for the Cardinals with a solid performance overall.<\/p>\n<p>Despite never wanting to join the Yankees, Gray feels a strong connection to Boston and eagerly waived his no-trade clause to join the Red Sox, believing they have a real shot at winning the World Series. The Red Sox acquired the 36-year-old on November 25, giving up several assets in return. Gray is in the final year of his $75 million contract and will join a pitching rotation that includes notable talents like Garrett Crochet and Breian Bello. Although Boston performed well against the Yankees in the regular season, they fell short in the postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Fan Take: Sonny Gray&#8217;s move to the Red Sox is a major development that could bolster Boston&#8217;s starting pitching and reshape the AL East rivalry. Baseball fans should watch closely, as Gray\u2019s presence might be the difference-maker in Boston&#8217;s quest for a championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonny Gray, recently acquired by the Red Sox from St. Louis, has quickly made an impact against Boston&#8217;s biggest competitor and has begun connecting with the team&#8217;s supporters. Gray shared with Boston&#8217;s Press Score that it&#8217;s easy to be passionate about hating the Yankees, reflecting on his previous time with them. Originally traded from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[16],"class_list":{"0":"post-30783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}