The Winter Meetings are underway in San Diego and the New York Yankees are reportedly ready to break the bank for free agent pitcher Gerrit Cole.
I'm told #Yankees have a seven-year, $245 million offer on the table for Gerrit Cole. Would be a record-setting contract for a pitcher, surpassing Greinke’s $34.4 million AAV. Question is whether #Dodgers or #Angels will go to 8-9 or even 10 years.
— Bob Klapisch (@BobKlap) December 8, 2019
Cole, who went 20-5 last year and finished second in the AL Cy Young voting, would represent the biggest free agent acquisition in years for New York, which has spent more frugally in recent years and leaned on trades and it’s own prospect growth.
All along, people have felt Cole would be going to the Angels, but reports are out that the Yankees “won’t be denied” in their pursuit of Cole.
The Yankees lost to Cole’s Astros in the ALCS a year ago.
