“We are going to move him if we get the right deal because I don’t think it is going to work out in the Bronx. I don’t feel like we can go through the same exercise and expect different results.”
Yankees GM Brian Cashman
Every time Sonny Gray takes the bump, it’s been a quiet repudiation of the New York Yankees and the way Cashman banished him from the Kingdom of the Pinstripes with a wave of his hand, punctuated by the very public declaration of the divorce.
From the Yankees’ perspective, Gray was just another country bumpkin who couldn’t handle the pressure and bright lights of the Bronx, couldn’t Billy Joel it, couldn’t master than New York state of mind.