SAN DIEGO — With their top target landed, the onus falls on the Yankees to make the most of their record-setting expenditure.
For the last thing anyone in The Bronx wants is for Gerrit Cole to be too much, too late.
The Baby Bombers’ championship window opened unofficially in the fall of 2017, and their bona fide ace just got here, courtesy of a mammoth, nine-year, $324 million contract bestowed to Cole here at the winter meetings. We are talking about a 103-win club that just added, arguably, the game’s best pitcher, so no one would contend this to be anything besides a great baseball development in addition to a signal by Hal Steinbrenner that, when he wants to, he can emulate his old man.