New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox fans have probably heard what Sonny Gray said just a week ago.
Gray stated that he didn’t ever want to play for the Yankees, although his initial press conference with New York suggested something different.
However, according to the latest from general manager Brian Cashman, it sounds like Gray was told to lie about how he felt during his time in New York. Gray was going to be a free agent and didn’t want to hurt his market.
“He said, ‘My agent, Bo McKinnis, told me to do that. He told me to lie. It wouldn’t be good for my free agency to say there’s certain places I don’t want to go to, so just go out and make sure you say …’ “So he told me after being with us for a very long time,” Cashman said, per the NY Post.
Responding to those comments, Gray’s agent, Bo McKinnis, strongly suggested that all of Cashman’s comments were false.
“So, Brian is trying to make people believe I told Sonny to, in Cashman’s words, ‘lie’ to the minor-league video guy to try to get Sonny to the Yankees — even though, per Cashman, Sonny did not want to be with the Yankees — to subsequently somehow help Sonny’s free agency,” McKinnis texted the outlet.
It’s tough to say who’s right or wrong here, as agents aren’t going to say their clients are lying, but Cashman also doesn’t have much of a reason to lie right now.
The reality is, nobody should be lying about the 36-year-old Gray, even though he’s still a decent arm.
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