Brewers general manager David Stearns has been interested in Sonny Gray for a long time, and that interest hasn’t waned dispite the departure of Gray’s former college pitching coach, according to the latest reports.
Jon Morosi says the Brewers are still a “prominent” part of trade talks for the former All-Star who’s all but guaranteed to be traded out of the Bronx this winter.
Stearns’ interest in Gray goes all the way back to the trade deadline in 2017, when the right-hander was still with Oakland. Stearns refused to give up Lewis Brinson in those initial trade talks, and Gray went to the New York Yankees instead.