ORLANDO, Fla. – The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees have butted heads in a plethora of ways over the last 125 years.

This time, it’s a ‘He said, he said” between new Red Sox starter Sonny Gray and longtime Yankees general manager Brian Cashman.

Gray revisited his miserable tenure with the 2017-18 Yankees last week in his first Red Sox press conference, saying, “I never wanted to go there in the first place…it feels good to me to go to a place now where, you know what, it’s easy to hate the Yankees.”

On Sunday night, Cashman told reporters at MLB Winter Meetings that while pitching for the then-Oakland Athletics, Gray had lied “to a number of different people” about wanting to become a Yankee.

“When he was with the A’s, he was telling our minor-league video coordinator, ‘You got to

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