WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Friday morning, Gerrit Cole texted Jameson Taillon. “We were going over what jams we were going to listen to in the morning on the way to the park, because we always set the tone with the same music,” Cole said.
This spring, while Taillon’s commute still takes him down East 27th Street in Bradenton toward Pirate City, Cole heads to the Ballpark of the Palm Beaches, a beautiful facility the Houston Astros and Washington Nationals share. When he heads to his locker in the corner of the clubhouse, he sits down next to Justin Verlander, Lance McCullers Jr.