There was a Major League Baseball trade made on Tuesday between the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals. The Red Sox acquired starting pitcher Sonny Gray of Smyrna, Tennessee from the St. Louis Cardinals for pitching prospect Brandon Clarke of Leesburg, Virginia and starting pitcher Richard Fitts of Helena, Alabama according to the Associated Press.
Gray is joining his sixth MLB team. He was previously with the Oakland Athletics for five seasons from 2013 to 2017, the New York Yankees for two seasons from 2017 to 2018, the Cincinnati Reds for three seasons from 2019 to 2021, the Minnesota Twins for two seasons from 2022 to 2023, and the last two seasons with the Cardinals. Over the last decade, Gray has been a three-time All-Star. He was honoured by the American League while with the Athletics in 2015 and Twins in 2023, and by the National League while with the Reds in 2019.
In 2025, Gray had a record of 14 wins and eight losses with an earned run average of 4.28. In 32 games and 180 2/3 innings pitched, he gave up 185 hits, 86 earned runs, 25 home runs, and 38 walks, to go along with 201 strikeouts, one complete game shutout, a WHIP (walks and hits per innings pitched) of 1.23, and a National League leading strikeout to walk ratio of 5.29.
Gray’s complete game shutout came on June 27. He had 11 strikeouts, and only gave up one hit, without surrendering a walk, in a 5-0 Cardinals win over the Cleveland Guardians on June 27.
Gray was one of 12 pitchers this past season to record 200 strikeouts. The MLB strikeout leader was Garrett Crochet of the Boston Red Sox with 255.
