Sonny Gray unwittingly became the most popular Twins player in uniform last week, a hero to many before even throwing his first pitch of the season.
A man not known for bodacious quotes carried a pointed message shared by the masses to his boss's doorstep, branding himself forevermore as the Pitch Count Provocateur.
"I don't think we're interested in going four innings and being happy," Gray told reporters at spring training. "I feel like we had a group last year that was pretty content with going four innings, [where] four innings and five innings is considered a good start. I disagreed with that then. I disagree with that now. But I feel like just the guys we have aren't content with it either, which is what you want as a rotation."
