Sonny Gray’s agent responds to Brian Cashman on Yankees vs. Red Sox comments originally appeared on The Sporting News. Click here to add Sports News as your go-to source.
New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox fans may have heard what Sonny Gray said a week ago.
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Gray said he never wanted to play for the Yankees, although he hinted otherwise during his initial press conference in New York.
However, according to an update from general manager Brian Cashman, it appears Gray was asked to lie about how he felt during his time in New York. Gray will be a free agent and doesn’t want to hurt his market.
“He said, ‘My agent Bo McInnis told me to do this. He told me to lie. It’s not going to be good for my free agent if he says I don’t want to go certain places, so just go out and make sure you say…’ “So he told me that after he’d been with us for a long time,” Cashman said, according to the New York Post .
In response to the comments, Gray’s agent Beau McGinnis strongly suggested that all of Cashman’s comments were wrong.
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“So, Brian was trying to make people believe that I told Sonny, in Cashman’s words, to ‘lie’ to the minor league video producers in an attempt to get Sonny to join the Yankees — even though, according to Cashman, Sonny didn’t want to join the Yankees — and then somehow help Sonny become a free agent,” McGinnis texted the outlet.
It’s hard to tell who’s right because agents wouldn’t say their clients were lying, but Cashman doesn’t have much reason to lie now.
The reality is that no one should lie to the 36-year-old Gray, although he is still a decent arm.
