Hey fellas, I think this Gerrit Cole guy might be pretty good.
All jokes aside, it’s only been two starts, but one can’t help but start to wonder whether this might be the year we get a full season of the truly world-beating, unquestionably-the-best-pitcher-on-the-planet Cole that most hoped for when he signed his record-breaking deal in 2020. Cole has almost certainly been worth the deal, but he also hasn’t spent as much time as we’d like being the utter buzzsaw that we saw mow through the American League for most of 2018-19.
As good as Cole has been through most of his Yankees tenure, his first two starts of this season have felt different.