When Gerrit Cole was tagged with a couple homers in a Spring Training game that no one should care about, I didn't think twice about it. Then you read the New York media and you'd think we made a bad investment in the offseason getting this guy. SHUT UP... ALL OF YOU!
Spring Training is for working through stuff. You wanna try a new stance? A new approach? You do it then. You want to shake the rust... that's where it should happen. You want to work on your fastball, your change up... it's spring... do it. That's what Gerrit Cole was doing. If anyone thinks otherwise you need to just go away. You don't know baseball.
The New York Post has this:
"Cole gave up four homers that were helped by a stiff wind blowing to center at Joker Marchant Stadium, but the breeze wasn’t the only reason Travis Demeritte and Miguel Cabrera hit back-to-back pitches for home runs in the first and second innings.
Four pitches, four homers. Despite the ugly numbers, the outing wasn’t a complete loss. “I felt pretty good physically. Overall pleased with more pitches than not,’’ Cole said. “Made a couple of bad pitches I would really like to have back. Like I said, pleased with most of the pitches, just got blistered on a handful.’’
“It is spring training. There is probably an element to we are going to continue to push the fastball, especially this early in spring. They are trying to get timed up on the fastball. That is probably their priority, too. We will have a more normal routine coming off this start. You take it for what it is, learn from it and get better.’’
If this is August and this crap is happening? I'm losing my mind. March? It doesn't even count. No one cares. Let me rephrase that... NO ONE SHOULD CARE, unless you have money on a Spring Training game that means absolutely nothing.
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