On Tuesday, Sonny Grey greeted Purple 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 after all, there’s one faculty 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 together with his time in New York. That is significantly obvious when diving into the pitching model Larry Rothschild and the Yankees needed to push on him throughout his disastrous season there. Certainly one of my favourite nuggets relating to that comes from this Fangraphs interview back in 2023 when Grey stated “I don’t suppose everybody had it collectively that everybody’s four-seam is completely different.” This was in response to the concept 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 while you begin pairing it with issues different Purple Sox pitchers have stated lately. Simply this week, Payton Tolle quipped “it’s good to have any person that’s like–minded,” when he was asked about Gray’s comments.
Additionally, in that very same linked article from Mass Dwell, Connor Wong added this: “I feel 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 evening, we added extra gas 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 bought a few nuggets on why David Sandlin doesn’t just like the Yankees.
And naturally, all that is driving on the again of Hunter Dobbins’ feedback from final June when he dropped this gem:
“I’ve stated it earlier than, if the Yankees had been the final workforce to offer me a contract, I’d retire.”
Dobbins then went on Foul Territory and doubled down on these remarks.
So now we have now 4 completely different pitchers in Grey, Tolle, Sandlin and Dobbins who’ve all both made their MLB debut or been added to the Purple Sox 40-man roster within the final eight months and have gone out of their method 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 Purple Sox have a reputable core of pitches who hate the Yankees.
With this sample growing, now’s a very good time to verify in on the 2026 schedule and discover the 13 dates the place the Purple Sox and Yankees match up. Right here’s what that appears like:
You would possibly wish to mark these dates down in your calendar. If there’s any reality behind all these phrases, there may very well be some critical fireworks.
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