 great to have you with us here on yesnetwork.com or Yankees hot stove segment Bob Lorenz John Flaherty Jack Curry and Michael Kay with you so we had a chance to kind of discuss the agreement with Garrett Cole we didn't get your take on it just want to see what you're thinking about this mega deal I think it has so many positive aspects for the Yankees gives them a true number one starter makes their bullpen better because now one every five days you expect to get at least seven innings out of Garrett Cole and I think it also improves the Yankees because it drops everybody down a notch all of a sudden you could look at this and James Paxson is your number four starter and you might say it's just a number well he's going to match up against the other team's number four starter he's going to be better than that guy so I think it makes the Yankees better all around we know how great he is on the field on the mound specifically with that four seam fastball lots of swings and misses up in the zone the two types of breaking pitches but had a chance to talk to Aaron Boone after the winter meetings ended on Thursday and he talked about how the Yankees are relishing the opportunity to see how Cole will impact his teammates he's an information guy he's an analytical guy and though you will get him on the mound for 32 starts or so for the other 130 games he's going to be very invested in making his teammates and his team better I'm glad you mentioned teammates as a teammate when you walk in that clubhouse door and he's taking the mound that night you're thinking we're winning this game and to Michael's point he's probably going to give us seven innings so if you're a bullpen guy not that you have the entire night off a couple of the guys at the back end probably will be getting some work but as a teammate you relax knowing that he's going to do the job probably going to go out there when 15 to 20 games over 200 innings and give the bullpen a break and to that point is an offense Michael you never go out there saying well great we only have to score a run or two you always want to score as many as possible but there's that luxury of saying we love playing behind this guy we know if we get him a couple runs we're in good shape I think there's a danger in that too I think we've seen it with Jacob the grom of the New York Mets they don't score him any runs I think sometimes you do relax because you know you're going to get a quality start sometimes you have a pitcher out there and go we've got a really slug to get this guy six seven runs to have a chance so the Yankees have to guard against that because this guy does give you a good opportunity but don't let it affect your offense continue to go out and and be the savages that they were last year and by the way they still have that power bullpen maybe Jack they just get a little less reliance on it when Cole's on the mound as Michael said no doubt about it I think that he makes everyone's life easier because this is a guy who they are going to push he's a workhorse he averaged over six innings per start last year and he's not going to be the type of pitcher two outs in the fifth inning tight situation bring in Chad Green no Garrett Cole is the guy who's going to get himself out of those problems I think you put an ace like him at the top of the rotation and you've just made a team that won 103 games last year so much better I'm glad you bring up Chad Green because is the opener gone for the New York Yankees I mean they used it a lot last year because they didn't really have any choices or they didn't like their guy in the fifth spot and then you went to the bulk pitcher out of the bullpen I think now with this rotation probably one of the best in the game you have five starters that you feel really good about the bullpen is going to be more traditional some middle guys in the middle of it and some power arms at the back end alright as always don't forget to check us out Yankees hot stove on yes and for all kinds of Yankees exclusive content just stay with yesnetwork.com we'll see you next time