Well, it’s been a truly bizarre journey to get here, but Gerrit Cole has, at long last, finally amassed enough starts to mark a complete season as a New York Yankee. When creating 162-game averages, Baseball Reference sets the benchmark for starting pitchers at 34 games, and Cole officially hit that mark his last time out when he threw a gem against the Los Angeles Angels.
In December 2019, Gerrit Cole signed a 10-year, $324 million contract with the Yankees, a massive amount of money to spend on a high-strikeout, high-velocity pitcher approaching thirty.