 That's a week from Christmas, but Christmas comes early for the Yankees and their fans as Garrett Cole is officially welcomed into pinstripes today at a press conference here at Yankee Stadium at the Legends Club. Hi everybody and welcome to a special presentation from the Yes Network along with Meredith Moroccovitz. I'm Michael Kay. The Yankees had one goal in mind when they went to the winter meetings. They wanted to sign the best pitcher in baseball. That was Garrett Cole. They got that done and by signing Garrett Cole, it could be the final piece of the puzzle as they look to return to the World Series. Pretty good signing. If you're a Yankees fan or the Yankees organization, you have to be incredibly excited about this. You look at a team that won 103 games last season and you ask yourself, how do you get a hundred and plus win team better? Well, you go out and get the best free agent pitcher in Garrett Cole. You now look at that rotation. You have Cole, Severino, Tanaka, Paxton and Jay Hap. You have to feel pretty good about that going into 2020. You feel pretty good about the fact that we have Bob Lorenz and Jack Curry on the other side of the room, guys. Michael, thank you. Such an impactful signing for the Yankees. Not only would Garrett Cole can do when he takes the ball every fifth day, but the way he can impact that entire pitching staff. Right. The Yankees, as Michael said, targeted Cole in the offseason and this is a watershed moment in Yankee history. It's also a deja vu moment in Yankee history because before the 2009 season, there was a pitcher with West Coast roots that the Yankees really wanted. They targeted him in free agency and they signed him. That was C.C. Sabathia. They've done the same thing with Garrett Cole. Guess what happened in C.C. Sabathia's first season with the Yankees? They won a World Series. They are hoping that the same thing happens with Cole in the rotation. One or multiple World Series championships. Garrett Cole already has one on his resume. We remember the first overall picked by the Pirates out of UCLA. He pitched there for three years. A three-time All-Star. You see, two top five Sayang finishes over the last two seasons and as many Yankees fans know, originally drafted by the Yankees in 2008, he did not sign. He ended up pitching for UCLA. But Jack, again, we talk about the difference that Garrett Cole can make not only to the starting rotation but sharing information with everybody and taking a little bit of load off that bullpen. That's the thing about Garrett Cole. We can talk about all the statistics and all the pitches. The four-seam fastball is going to be up in the zone. The two types of breaking pitches. But in talking to Aaron Boone, he's also excited about the impact that Cole is going to have up and down that rotation. When your best pitcher is also one of your hardest workers and one of the guy who is seeking information to try and make himself better, that's going to have a trickle-down effect on everyone else who is on that staff. Well, Garrett Cole, again, is here, along with his wife, Amy, many of the Yankees executives and dignitaries. Manager Aaron Boone, they'll be approaching the dais in just a bit. But Jack, let's talk more about this off-season and the impact that a signing like this has when you go on and get a true base and how it changes the face of a rotation and a team. Right, you go back to last off-season and there were some splashy free agents out there and the Yankees had a disciplined approach and who they wanted to add. They did not go down the road with a Harper or a Machado. Garrett Cole was different. We've heard General Manager Brian Cashman refer to him as a unicorn. And I feel this was a perfect storm of events that led the Yankees and Cole to a marriage that the Yankees had hoped would happen well before this, Bob. You talked about this already, how they had drafted him and how he has been a pitcher they have pursued for a long time. Cashman has referred to him as their white whale. Well, the white whale has been captured and now the Yankees are thrilled with the prospect or the idea of being able to start him every five days. Again, just a couple of minutes away from the start of the press.