Gerrit Cole Stats
- Height / Weight
- 6' 4" / 220 lbs.
- Date of Birth (Age)
- 9/8/1990 (30)
- Experience
- 7
- College
- UCLA
Gerrit Cole Season Stats
Last 10 Games
Gerrit Cole News
New York Yankees starting pitcher Gerrit Cole authored a strong outing in Wednesday's victory over the Minnesota Twins. Cole pitched six innings, allowing a pair of runs on five hits with no walks. He struck out nine batters and generated only nine whiffs, though he painted the zone with 21 called strikes. Cole's spin rates were down ever-so-slightly, though not enough to warrant the media snafu that followed him leading up to the start. Fantasy managers have nothing to worry about moving forward when it comes to Cole's performance, as he should remain a top-tier starter whether or not the league cracks down on foreign substances. He is lined up to take on the Toronto Blue Jays in his next start. He held them to two runs and struck out eight in their first meeting.
New York Yankees starting pitcher Gerrit Cole took his third loss of the season in Thursday's 9-2 defeat at the hands of the Tampa Bay Rays Thursday. Cole pitched five innings, allowing five runs on five hits with two walks issued. The ace righty struck out seven and generated 15 whiffs on 92 pitches, though he didn't quite have his sharpest stuff. Cole was mistake-free until the fourth and fifth innings, where poorly located changeups came back to bite him. Despite the subpar effort, Cole still owns a 2.26 ERA with a 104:11 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 75 2/3 innings pitched. He'll face the Minnesota Twins on June 9. Cole has faced the Twins once in his career, pitching seven shutout innings with 11 punchouts.
New York Yankees starting pitcher Gerrit Cole was effective over six innings of work despite not factoring into the decision on Friday night. Cole allowed one run over his six frames with six hits and a walk. He struck out five batters, his second-lowest total of the season. The ace right-hander generated 14 whiffs, and though he didn't have his best putaway stuff, he was still able to keep runs off the scoreboard. Cole didn't get any help from the Yankee offense, something that has happened in a few of his starts already. He ranks among the 10 best starters in baseball in wins, ERA, strikeouts, and WHIP, with a career-high 35.1 percent K-BB rate to boot. Cole lines up to take on the Tampa Bay Rays in his next start. He was masterful against them earlier this season, striking out 12 batters in eight shutout frames.
Gerrit Cole Stats
Last 10 Games
What goes up must come down, and that seems to be the case after New York Yankees starting pitcherGerrit Cole could not quite replicate the all-time season that he had in 2019. The nearly unheard of 39.9% strikeout rate he posted in 2019 made his stellar 32.6% mark in 2020 seem disappointing, but his elite walk rate did not budge at 5.9%. With fewer strikeouts came more contact -- coming up to a 69.1% contact rate, up from a 66.3% mark -- and all of this, along with the negative home ballpark shift, resulted in some more long balls (1.73 home runs per nine innings), which contributed to his ERA also bloating all the way up to a still incredible 2.84. Cole decided if it's not broken, don't fix it in 2020, keeping his pitch distribution and all of the PITCHf/x metrics on his offerings the same, and that parlayed into another Cy Young-caliber year -- he finished fourth in the voting. It is a very good bet that Cole's home run issues improve in 2021, given that his 1.73 home runs allowed in 2020 rank in the 92nd percentile among pitchers with ground-ball rates between 40% and 45% and strikeout rates above 30% over the last five seasons. The Yankees ace is as good of a bet as anybody to take home the SP1 crown in 2021, and he might find himself slipping into the late second round on draft day.