Believe it not, the fact that Gerrit Cole utterly destroyed his New York Yankees teammates in an intrasquad game was not the biggest news out of the Bronx this week. Not if you factored in that A) Cole is already hitting 99 mph on the radar gun and B) he's so competitive that he regarded the one-on-ones against the Bombers as total war.
Who would've expected anything less from New York's most celebrated free agent since Reggie Jackson? It would've taken an opposite chain of events to light up social media: Cole showing up without his fastball or with an extra 20 pounds around the middle or getting lit up by the Yankees' B squad lineup.