It didn’t take long for Sonny Gray to reintroduce himself to the Yankees – Red Sox rivalry.

Speaking for the first time since he was traded to Boston last week, Gray came with fighting words about the Yankees, with whom he famously struggled during a two-year tenure from 2017-18.

“What did factor into my decision to come to Boston [is that] it feels good to me to go to a place now where, you know what, it’s easy to hate the Yankees, right?” Gray, 36, said Tuesday during an introductory Zoom call .

“It’s easy to go out and have that rivalry and go into it with full force, full steam ahead. I like the challenge.”

The Yankees envisioned Gray as a frontline starter when they acquired him from the Oakland A’s before the 2017 trade deadline.

But Gray went just 15-16 with 4.51 ERA

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