{"id":33423,"date":"2025-03-16T01:11:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=33423"},"modified":"2025-03-16T01:11:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T01:11:24","slug":"yankees-reunite-with-75-million-3-time-all-star-in-trade-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=33423","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Reunite With $75 Million, 3-Time All-Star in Trade Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\" class=\"wp-caption \">\n<div class=\"h-responsive\">\n<figure class=\"h-responsive__inner\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-featured-image size-featured-image wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2182028440-4-e1742058502190.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2182028440-4-e1742058502190.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2182028440-4-e1742058502190.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/GettyImages-2182028440-4-e1742058502190.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"New York Yankees, Sonny Gray, Gerrit Cole\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" data-dom-ready-time=\"675\" data-img-load-time=\"1424\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption-credit\">Getty<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"c-post-image-caption-text\">Aaron Boone walking to the mound to change pitchers<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0New York Yankees\u00a0have given many players an opportunity around the league who didn\u2019t do enough during their time with the organization. Perhaps the most well-known failure in recent years was\u00a0Sonny Gray, a right-hander who has thrown the baseball at an above average level at nearly every other stop.<\/p>\n<p>Gray, who owns a 3.51 ERA, has put together an incredible career for himself, earning three All-Star nods, top five Cy Young finishes, and a $75 million contract he signed through 2026.<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0Gerrit Cole out, Jack Murray of Bleacher Report proposed trade ideas for the Yankees to replace him, including Gray in his article.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA less splashy option considering his age and past experience with the franchise but he has been resurgent late in his career. He pitched 166.1 innings in 2024 and compiled a 13-9 record and a 3.84 ERA,\u201d\u00a0Murray wrote.<\/p>\n<h2>Would the Cardinals Trade Gray?<\/h2>\n<p>The\u00a0St. Louis Cardinals, unlike the New York Yankees, entered the offseason trying to save money. Despite the idea of shedding salary, the Cardinals haven\u2019t done much, not trading Gray, Nolan Arenado, and others who were believed to be available.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bob Nightengale of USA Today in September, the Cardinals were willing to move on from Gray.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cThe St. Louis Cardinals, who will announce a series of personnel moves on Monday with Chaim Bloom taking on a greater role, plan to shop veteran starter Sonny Gray while reducing payroll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cGray, who signed a three-year, $75 million contract last winter, has a full no-trade clause,\u201d\u00a0Nightengale wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Mark Feinsand of MLB.com added that Gray could be traded, meaning that noise was still around a few months later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAside from Crochet, other starters potentially available in trades include Luis Castillo, Dylan Cease, Sonny Gray and Jes\u00fas Luzardo, according to sources,\u201d\u00a0Feinsand wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Things change quickly on the trade front, but the Yankees should be able to, at the very least, inquire on Gray.<\/p>\n<h2>Gray Is Ready to Play<\/h2>\n<p>Playing for a team that isn\u2019t trying to win is never ideal. The New York Yankees have attempted to win at nearly every step of the way during the existence of the organization. The St. Louis Cardinals have been a very proud organization for a very long time, too, but this isn\u2019t the time for them to compete.<\/p>\n<p>Gray, Arenado, and the other players on the roster who are built to win now, know it\u2019s a business. Gray, however, just wants to pitch, and he\u2019s ready to play whether he\u2019s with the Cardinals or another team like the Yankees eventually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou say a \u2018reset\u2019 I guess, but what does that mean? I mean, it\u2019s not like we unloaded everybody we just didn\u2019t sign the people who were free agents back and didn\u2019t add any free agents so far,\u201d Gray said. \u201cI don\u2019t know, only time will tell. I\u2019m getting more and more excited each day that I\u2019m here just for baseball in general. Only time will tell how this goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He already had a stint with the Yankees, and while it didn\u2019t go as planned, he\u2019s older, and could welcome a return if it makes sense for both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Aaron Boone walking to the mound to change pitchers The\u00a0New York Yankees\u00a0have given many players an opportunity around the league who didn\u2019t do enough during their&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Yankees Reunite With $75 Million, 3-Time All-Star in Trade Pitch - 24\/7 News America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/usatoday.azontree.com\/?p=33423\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yankees Reunite With $75 Million, 3-Time All-Star in Trade Pitch - 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