Less than three hours before this year’s All-Star Game, more than a dozen reporters are huddled around Yankees ace Gerrit Cole at his locker in the visiting clubhouse at Dodger Stadium. Cole is in his typical form on days when he’s not pitching, relaxed and at ease talking baseball with the scribes.
No more than six feet away sits Cole’s catcher, Jose Trevino, who made his first All-Star team this season. Back in early April when the Rangers traded him to New York, nobody—not even Trevino—thought he would be here now, three-and-a-half months later.