On Tuesday, Sonny Grey greeted Pink Sox Nation with precisely what it needed to listen to. Right here’s the cash quote:
“It feels good to me to have the ability to go to a spot now the place it’s simple to hate the Yankees.”
Not solely is the quote bellicose, however the supply leaves little room for epexegesis:
Now in fact, there’s one college of thought that he’s simply pandering to his new viewers, and maybe that’s true. However there’s additionally a fairly established historical past of Grey not being too happy along with his time in New York. That is notably obvious when diving into the pitching model Larry Rothschild and the Yankees needed to push on him throughout his disastrous season there. Considered one of my favourite nuggets concerning that comes from this Fangraphs interview back in 2023 when Grey mentioned “I don’t assume everybody had it collectively that everybody’s four-seam is completely different.” This was in response to the thought they needed him to work up within the zone when his spinning four-seam had extra success down within the zone.
However Grey’s gossip solely will get extra fascinating once you begin pairing it with issues different Pink Sox pitchers have mentioned not too long ago. Simply this week, Payton Tolle quipped “it’s good to have any individual that’s like–minded,” when he was asked about Gray’s comments.
Additionally, in that very same linked article from Mass Stay, Connor Wong added this: “I believe rising up for me personally, I wasn’t an enormous fan of theirs, so I like that out of him and really excited to have him.”
Then on Tuesday night time, we added extra gasoline to the fireplace when OTM’s personal Pod On Lansdowne crew did their first interview with a participant on the 40-man roster. Right here, we acquired a few nuggets on why David Sandlin doesn’t just like the Yankees.
And naturally, all that is using on the again of Hunter Dobbins’ feedback from final June when he dropped this gem:
“I’ve mentioned it earlier than, if the Yankees had been the final workforce to provide me a contract, I’d retire.”
Dobbins then went on Foul Territory and doubled down on these remarks.
So now we’ve 4 completely different pitchers in Grey, Tolle, Sandlin and Dobbins who’ve all both made their MLB debut or been added to the Pink Sox 40-man roster within the final eight months and have gone out of their option to specific one thing between dislike and disdain for the Yankees. Both media coaches at the moment are flat out telling guys to dump on New York as a result of it performs with followers, or the Pink Sox have a authentic core of pitches who hate the Yankees.
With this sample growing, now’s an excellent time to verify in on the 2026 schedule and discover the 13 dates the place the Pink Sox and Yankees match up. Right here’s what that appears like:
You may wish to mark these dates down in your calendar. If there’s any reality behind all these phrases, there might be some critical fireworks.
