“I wouldn’t trade it for anything,” Gray said of his time in the Bronx, speaking to Forbes SportsMoney writer John Perrotto. “It obviously didn’t go the way I had hoped, or the Yankees had hoped but I learned a lot from it. I learned how to deal with adversity. I learned how to keep pushing forward when things weren’t going right. I learned about myself and I’m a better man for it. It helped me immensely.”
Yankees fans just wish Gray had assisted the Bombers immensely.
Before putting on the pinstripes, the 29-year-old righty was known as the Oakland Athletics’ ace.