This Sonny Gray situation has been peculiar, to say the least. Sure, we’ve seen Brian Cashman frustrated with players at times, but some of his quotes of late regarding his 2017 trade acquisition have people wondering if Cashman is envisioning giving Sonny Gray the Sonny Corleone treatment (it would be easy to bring a car to a standstill at the GWB tollbooth).
So far, Cashman has told reporters that Gray’s time with the Yankees “is going to expire.” Earlier in the month he also said, “We are going to move him if we get the right deal because I don’t think it is going to work out in The Bronx,” before adding, “I don’t feel like we can go through the same exercise and expect different results.