The entire Red Sox pitching staff seems to hate the Yankees

"It feels good to me to be able to go to a place now where it's easy to hate the Yankees."

"I don't think everyone had it together that everyone's four-seam is different."

"I think growing up for me personally, I wasn't a huge fan of theirs, so I love that out of him and very excited to have him."

"I've said it before, if the Yankees were the last team to give me a contract, I'd retire."

Sonny Gray openly framed his move to Boston around strong antipathy for the Yankees, saying he enjoys being somewhere "easy to hate the Yankees." Gray recalled friction over the Yankees' pitching approach, noting a disagreement about working up in the zone and that "everyone's four-seam is different." Teammates reinforced Gray's sentiment; Payton Tolle called having a like-minded teammate valuable, Connor Wong welcomed Gray's stance as a fan-pleasing fit, and David Sandlin voiced his own dislike of the Yankees. Hunter Dobbins previously stated he would rather retire than sign with the Yankees and doubled down on that remark.

Read at Over the Monster