{"id":451724,"date":"2025-11-27T12:16:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/451724\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T12:16:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:16:29","slug":"boston-red-sox-acquire-veteran-righty-sonny-gray-from-st-louis-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/451724\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox acquire veteran righty Sonny Gray from St. Louis Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/sonny-gray\/455516\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/sonny-gray\/455516\" target=\"_blank\">Sonny Gray<\/a> is headed back to the American League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/boston-red-sox\/226\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/boston-red-sox\/226\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> confirmed the addition of the veteran righty on Tuesday. Going the other way are pitchers Brandon Clarke and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/richard-fitts\/1316898\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/richard-fitts\/1316898\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Fitts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gray, 36, is headed into the final year of a three-year, $75 million deal. The contract has a $30 million club option for 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A native of Smyrna, TN, Gray appeared in 32 games in 2025, posting a record of 14-8 with an earned run average of 4.28 and 1.234 WHIP over 180.2 innings of work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A three-time All-Star, Gray will play in his 14th big league season in 2026. He has also previously suited up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/minnesota-twins\/233\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/minnesota-twins\/233\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/cincinnati-reds\/241\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/cincinnati-reds\/241\" target=\"_blank\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/new-york-yankees\/234\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/new-york-yankees\/234\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> and Oakland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/athletics\/235\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/athletics\/235\" target=\"_blank\">Athletics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gray needed to waive his no-trade clause to facilitate the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sonny Gray is headed back to the American League. The Boston Red Sox confirmed the addition of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2403],"tags":[30173,5,60896,160,4,62286,62285,673,67,4311,4310],"class_list":{"0":"post-451724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-louis-cardinals","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-boston-red-sox-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-226","11":"tag-cardinals","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-sonny-gray-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-455516","14":"tag-st-louis-cardinals-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-248","15":"tag-st-louis","16":"tag-st-louis-cardinals","17":"tag-stlouis","18":"tag-stlouiscardinals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115621618776887861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}