Tag: Gerrit Cole

Gerrit Cole furiously rips Daniel Vogelbach for a bat flip and slow HR trot in spring training

Gerrit Cole was MAD at this.

It’s only spring training, but we’ve already got some beef ahead of the 2024 MLB season.

On Friday, New York Yankees star Gerrit Cole threw a fastball that Toronto Blue Jays slugger Daniel Vogelbach sent deep into the Florida night. There would be no problem with that, but Vogelbach gave a little bat flip and maybe Cole thought his home run trot was a little slow for a game that was happening on the first day of March and not in the regular season.

“Yeah, what’s the day? Are we still in February? March 1st? Yeah, he enjoyed that homer,” Cole said on Friday, per MLB’s Bryan Hoch. And Cole added this when asked if he’d remember that: “I don’t forget a lot of things.”

WHEW.

Former UCLA Bruin Gerrit Cole ranks #9 in MLB Top-100

Former UCLA Bruins star Gerrit Cole is one of the top players in the MLB.

The Major League Baseball season is almost underway, with spring training starting this weekend.

In the leadup, the MLB ranked their top 100 active players, and one former Bruin cracked the top 10.

New York Yankees pitcher Gerrit Cole came in at 9th on the list. The 2023 AL Cy Young winner and six-time All-Star played for the Bruins from 2009 to 2011. In his time as a Bruin, Cole pitched his way to second in career strikeouts (376), third in career games started (49), and 153 strikeouts in 2011, the third-most in a single season at UCLA.

One of the best pitchers to com out of the program, the honor of 9th best in 2024 is a reflection of the UCLA baseball program.

Drafted #1 overall by the Pittsburgh Pirates, Cole has lived up to the lofty expectations. Recording the most strikeouts in a single season for two franchises, the Astros (326) and Yankees (257), Cole is one of the premier aces in all of baseball.

With the Yankees loading up for a potential World Series run, Cole can make soem more history for New York this season and make his alma mater proud.

Why did Gerrit Cole wag his finger at the Mariners? Video breaks down saga involving Jose Caballero and Scott Servais

Here’s the whole saga that led to the Gerrit Cole finger wag.

Why did Gerrit Cole wag his finger at the Seattle Mariners dugout on Monday night, you ask?

The answer is: It’s a whole saga.

The New York Yankees pitcher was seen pulling a Dikembe Mutombo at the Mariners on Tuesday night, and thanks to Jomboy, we have a breakdown of the sequence that led up to it.

It started with the Mariners’ Jose Caballero, who called time right as Cole was getting set to pitch in the fifth inning. That irked Cole, who threw heat during the at-bat. More antics, and Caballero got a lucky broken-bat hit off him.

Another at-bat in the seventh and Caballero took another time out. Cole overthrew a ball way over the hitter’s head. Eventually, he struck Caballero out … and wagged his finger.

Why? Turns out, as Cole explained, Mariners manager Servais was wagging his finger.

Here’s the full breakdown, but: WARNING: Some NSFW language is in here:

Gerrit Cole was visibly frustrated with Gleyber Torres after a defensive miscue at second base

Cole showing up a teammate?

It’s been a somewhat disappointing early start to the season for the Yankees. While they’re a few games above .500, they’re sitting at last place in a stacked American League East. And when they’re playing a red-hot team like the Tampa Bay Rays, they absolutely cannot afford to give the Rays extra outs.

But at the same time, it’s never a good look for a pitcher to show up his teammate. And Gerrit Cole drifted awfully close to doing that on Sunday.

With a runner on and two outs in the second inning against the Rays, Gleyber Torres made a running, back-hand stab at a chopping grounder up the middle. But instead of taking the easy out at first base, Torres turned and tried to reach for second base. The Yankees got no outs from the defensive miscue.

Yet, take a look at Cole’s reaction to the play.

He rolled his eyes and shouted, “Oh my God.”

That’s one of those plays where you’d like to see the pitcher move on from and focus on the next batter. And despite showing the frustration, he got Christian Bethancourt to ground into a fielder’s choice the following at-bat.

Fans had thoughts on the exchange too.

Yankees fans loved that Gerrit Cole wanted to pitch in Game 5 … one day after throwing 110 pitches

Now, that’s an ACE mentality.

The New York Yankees avoided elimination on Sunday night behind a masterful pitching performance from Gerrit Cole. The Yankees ace shut down the Guardians in Game 4 of the ALDS, going seven innings of six-hit, two-run baseball on 110 pitches. It was exactly what New York needed to force a decisive Game 5.

Well, if Cole has his way, we could be seeing more of him in this series. Yes, really.

According to YES Network’s Jack Curry, Cole arrived to Yankee Stadium on Monday feeling so great that he told manager Aaron Boone that he would be available to pitch in Monday’s Game 5, if needed. Now, everything we know about pitching recovery time tells us that it’s not a great idea to pitch a day after throwing 100-plus pitches. But for Cole to even put that possibility on the table — it had to be intriguing.

Boone did say that he would be hesitant to take Cole up on the offer, but shockingly, that wasn’t a flat-out no. Monday’s starter, Jameson Taillon, has been among the Yankees’ most dependable pitchers this regular season. But Taillon lacks the postseason experience you’d want from an elimination-game starter, and he did have a rough outing in Game 2 out of the bullpen. If Cole can actually go, it changes the entire calculus for Boone.

At the very least, Cole’s willingness to pitch on back-to-back days had Yankees fans pumped. It’s the postseason: You can’t hold anything back.

Gerrit Cole had a savage 4-word response to Josh Naylor’s rocking-the-baby celebration

This response tells you all you need to know.

Josh Naylor has been known to celebrate a home run or two with wild, over-the-top celebrations.

And in Game 4 of the ALDS matchup against the New York Yankees on Sunday, the Cleveland Guardians slugger knocked one out of the park and ran the bases while doing the “rock the baby” celebration.

I’m not here to criticize it at all. Home runs are awesome and should be celebrated accordingly.

But in the playoffs? If you don’t end up winning a game, you might hear an earful from your opponent, especially the pitcher.

Enter Gerrit Cole, who had this to say — just four words that summed it all up for the New York Yankees hurler:

Yup. Can’t wait for Game 5.

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Gerrit Cole’s knuckle curveballs had so much movement that they were literally impossible to hit

These pitches didn’t top 85 mph but were absolutely beautiful. And unhittable.

The New York Yankees kicked off their 2022 postseason Tuesday night with a 5-3 victory at home over the Cleveland Guardians.

Their ace, Gerrit Cole, led the way by giving up just one run in 6 1/3 innings and he racked up 8 strike outs while being fully in control of all of his pitches.

While we’ve seen pitchers throwing serious heat all over the place this season, some of Cole’s most impressive pitches didn’t top 85 mph and still had Cleveland hitters looking silly.

Cole’s knuckle curveballs were absolutely beautiful in Game 1. Let’s take a look at a few of them for proof of that and also because these are really fun to watch.

Blue Jays pitcher Alek Manoah very calmly called out Gerrit Cole for getting mad at him

Alek Manoah had a message for Gerrit Cole after Sunday’s little dustup in the Bronx.

The Blue Jays and Yankees had another battle in the Bronx on Sunday that got a little heated and led to the benches clearing before the two guys involved – Blue Jays pitcher Alek Manoah and Yankees star Aaron Judge – calmed things down.

Manoah hit Judge with a sinker in the fifth inning. Judge had some words for Manoah, which prompted Yankees ace Gerrit Cole to come out of the dugout and have words for Manoah as well.

Nothing crazy happened after that but it was a little weird to see Cole come firing out of the dugout and being so angry at Manoah.

After the game Manoah said he’d have no problem settling things with Cole if the Yankees pitcher wanted to escalate the situation:

The Audi signs are locate between the dugouts and the first and third base paths:

Twitter had reactions:

Yankees’ slump is sending their World Series odds in the wrong direction. Buy now

It’s time to buy low on the Yankees.

The New York Yankees sure don’t look like anybody’s future title-winning team right now. After holding down one of the two best records in the majors for most if not all of the season, they’ve seemingly just forgot how to play.

New York has a 7-11 record since the All-Star break and is just 1-6 in its last seven games, including a five-game losing streak. The Yankees even forgot how to run bases in Tuesday’s loss to the Mariners.

As a result of the skid, their odds to win the World Series have tumbled. They went from +350 at the start of August — second-shortest behind the Dodgers — to +450 ahead of Wednesday’s game. Those Tipico Sportsbook odds now have them a distant third behind the Dodgers (+320) and cross-town rival Mets (+350).

They took a similar slide at other sportsbooks.

However, this little slump isn’t a reason to sell your Yankees stock. Rather, it’s a perfect opportunity to buy their futures at odds longer than we’ve seen since June.

Looking at how they’ve performed, particularly since the start of August, there really isn’t one particular problem area holding them back. They’ve seen good pitching and good offense in spurts, and simply haven’t been able to put the two together at the same time.

They lost Tuesday’s game 1-0, squandering a 13-inning gem by Gerrit Cole and the bullpen. But before you blame the offense, they scored nine runs in each of the previous two games. They won one but lost another because they allowed 12 runs. This isn’t a Marlins situation, where the team simply can’t score. And the pitching as a whole hasn’t been good of late, but most of the same arms are still there from earlier in the season.

The delayed return of starter Luis Severino from the injured list is certainly a concern, especially after New York traded Jordan Montgomery at the deadline. But as long as the Yankees have a healthy rotation going into the postseason, I trust the law of averages to balance things out. With so much talent, they’ll be as competitive as anybody.

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Gerrit Cole was seen absolutely crushing bananas in the dugout and MLB fans had lots of jokes

Gerrit Cole was not messing around with these bananas.

There have been high temperatures all over the country the past few weeks and went temps are up it’s important to stay hydrated.

New York Yankees ace Gerritt Cole knows the importance of hydration and he wasn’t messing around at all with during last night’s game against the Orioles in steamy Baltimore.

Cole, who suffered his third loss of the season Saturday  night, was seen crushing bananas and oranges in between innings to help make sure his body was firing on all cylinders. When I say he was eating bananas and oranges I really mean that he was absolutely crushing them like he was in a banana and oranges eating contest.

Check this out:

He wasn’t messing around with those bananas and oranges.

The reminds of the time Peyton Manning ate chicken like this:

Twitter had jokes about Cole.