Mailbag: Gray, Harper, Stanton, Yankees MVP, LeMahieu

Ten questions in this week’s mailbag. Only two more of these to go until Opening Day. Send all your mailbag questions to RABmailbag (at) gmail (dot) com and I’ll get to as many as I can each week.

Gray. (Kareem Elgazzar/Cincinnati Enquirer)Many, many people asked: What do you make of Sonny Gray saying the Yankees forced him him to throw his slider?

Earlier this week Eno Sarris (subs. req’d) wrote a piece on Gray in which Sonny, among other things, said the Yankees made him throw too many sliders. He indicated he was on board with the anti-fastball philosophy, but felt he should’ve thrown more curveballs than sliders. Here’s part of the quote:

“I can’t command my slider that well,” the new Reds…