​Now that ​Sonny Gray is no longer a member of the New York Yankees, he's telling us how he really felt during his time in the Bronx.

Let's just say, it wasn't positive.

In his only full season with the Yankees last year, Gray's ERA was close to 5.00 and he was relegated to the bullpen. If you ask Gray why he had little to no success, it's because they insisted on him throwing a "crappy" slider (now tweak that language a little, and you've got the full quote).

“They love sliders,” Gray told The Athletic. “Sliders are a great pitch. The numbers say slider is a good pitch, but you might not realize how many s–tty counts you’re getting in while throwing all those sliders. They wanted me to be [Masahiro] Tanaka and I’m way different from him."

Nice try, Sonny, but we don't exactly recall you commanding your fastball very well either? Just a thought.

“I can’t command my slider that well," Gray continued. "I want to throw my slider in the dirt with two strikes, and that’s about it. I don’t have that type of slider, like Tanaka’s slider. His slider, the catcher will catch it, and the batter will swing and miss. If I get a swing and miss, the catcher is blocking it in the dirt. When I try to throw sliders for a strike, I get around it and it’s just a s–tty spinning pitch. I don’t know how people throw sliders for strikes that are still tight, good pitches. I’m at 2-0 and I’m throwing a slider, and either I’m throwing a s–tty slider in the zone, or I’m yanking it into the dirt and it’s 3-0 and I’m screwed either way.”

​​Gray also put pitching coach Larry Rothschild on blast, saying that when he asked for help and what he could do better, especially at home where he didn't have much success, the team just chalked it up as being unlucky.

“Am I nuts? Do you see a difference? What’s the difference?” Gray said. “They said, ‘No, you’ve just been unlucky.’ I was like, ‘That’s bulls–t.’”

If what Gray is saying is true, then the Yankee coaching staff, especially Rothschild, should be partially blamed for his failure in New York. In the end, the players play and have to execute, but when someone as talented as Gray is asking for help to get back on track, it's your job to lend a hand.

It appears Gray had a strained relationship with the Yankees from top to bottom, which explains why GM ​Brian Cashman was so public about wanting to trade him.