 this day way at the beginning like just after midnight the Yankees did whatever Yankee fan wanted them to do they did whatever Yankee fan was uncertain whether it would be done they signed the best pitcher available now they probably signed one of the top two pitchers in all of baseball and you can actually say that the two best pitchers in baseball work in New York City Jacob DeGram and Garrett Cole but the Yankees did not get him in the bargain bin they did not get him with a bargain they paid more money for Garrett Cole than has ever been paid average annual value of any player in baseball history even more they're giving him more than Mike trout so a pitcher in the big leagues makes 32 starts in the regular season 32 he's gonna make more than a million dollars a start now you don't get paid in the postseason so the Yankee hope is that he makes five starts in October and then it's gonna be about a million dollars a start they paid high for them they feel that he's worth it they went against everything that they have preached for the last five to seven years the fiscal responsibility the building from within the only win with home runs they realized because they do adjust on the fly that they needed that one pitcher that every single time he takes the ball he's gonna give them at least seven innings damn the fact that he has to face a line up the third time because that one day out of five the Yankees can tell their bullpen for the most part chill out we got this they didn't have that pitcher as good as Tanaka is he's a hundred pitch pitcher if that Paxton six innings if that everybody else is that sort of guy not this guy so when you say well what changed they wouldn't give Corbin the extra year they would not give anybody extra years they offered Machado five years they wouldn't go to ten why this guy and I'm sure that the answer they can't even comment publicly because Cole has to fly east in order to take a physical but their answer is gonna be because this guy's different this guy special now you can say Cole took me eight years because it was the most money and that's probably the case I think they made a strong presentation to him they pulled out a wild card his favorite player as a kid was Andy Pettit shows up at his doorstep and one other thing it's being reported that both the Angels and the Dodgers offered over $300 million for eight years and I think the difference the reason the Yankees got a house time when I said give them the ninth year I mean who knows the oceans might rise we could be dead in nine years I'm not saying that how saying that but if I'm already moreno and you can't say the Yankees desperately needed Cole you could say the Yankees feel that calls the difference between going to the American League championship series and possibly winning a World Series okay you could say that but the Angels desperately needed Cole why wouldn't you go to the ninth year you want ten years for Albert Poles you want 13 years for trout you're gonna draw the line there that's why I didn't even understand last year why did the Yankees die on the hill of the sixth year for Corbin why well this year they wouldn't die on the year of the eighth or ninth year they gave them the ninth year the Angels and the Dodgers wouldn't and here we are the Yankees have one of the best pitchers in baseball and their rotation is strong enough and their team is strong enough that they are now considered the favorite in major league baseball women World Series next year now but make no mistake the Angels would would have to get them not the Dodgers because I did the Dodgers are still the favorites down in the West is to just become relevant again and make the playoffs it's important Yankees know they're gonna be a hundred win team that's gonna go to the playoffs they've won 203 games over the last couple of years this guy was brought here for the postseason and to win in the postseason alright and Yankee fans should be the first to tell you because we were on the year all those years that a rod was winning MVPs and Yankee fans didn't care because they didn't win if he goes out goes 24 and 3 and wins the Cy Young the Yankees don't win the championship it's not gonna matter to the fans this is to win a championship Yankees have seen Cy Young's they've seen division championships they've seen 100 win seasons they want to see a ring and they haven't seen one since 2009 so that's what this is about here and the Yankees and you bring up a great point they've been so against doing this they've been fiscally responsible really since Hal has taken over full time wouldn't give the extra couple of years to Kano who at the time was their best player right there for them 71 at 10 they wanted to turn their route we're not dancing in those waters anymore we're not doing what we did with CC and Alex Rodriguez we don't want guys at the end of their career making money doing nothing and now they've changed now is it because Cole is just that singular talent that you're willing to change for because rules are made to be broken because sometimes somebody comes along and you changes the rules or is this an admittance that you know what we try to do it fiscally responsible it wasn't working now we're gonna have to change so we'll get to the wall I'm sure we'll talk to Brian Cashman at some point we'll talk to Hal at some point but why the change is it because of this player because it wasn't the pitching necessarily that cost them the championship the last couple of years it was the hitting going south so is this admitting that being fiscally responsible doesn't work or is he special I believe it I believe it's gonna see special and and I'm gonna lay out a little bit of a plan here Peter like this I love plans how they just got this guy improved exponentially because remember last year they won 103 games without Severino and without Cole now they'll have Severino the entire year and add Garrett Cole they might win a record number of games but here's how you can fit the number in because right now their payroll is over the final threshold so they're gonna be taxed at a very high rate and their draft position is gonna be affected greatly no CC sabbatia that's 10 million dollars okay no DD Gregorius that's about 10 or 11 so let's say 21 million dollars and they're trying to trade j-hop if they trade j-hop in a 17 million dollars and the way you could do that is you could piggyback one of the great young prospects with j-hop a team takes the 17 million and j-hop does not have a no trade clause boom you have just created in an easy maneuver 38 million dollars in cap room now they don't have a cap that attacks and you're adding 36 and you got the team better and the guys you subtracted doesn't it doesn't affect them at all no but that answers 2020 but the but the reason that they were always against giving these long-term contracts is because they end up being an albatross at the end of the deal and this one probably will be now it's very arbitrary right Peter you'll hear Yankee fans Michael says it you win it you win a championship also forgiven nobody's gonna care about the contract you know nobody cares about the CC contract because they won in 2009 nobody cares about the a rod contract as they won in 2009 that's kind of arbitrary so one championship could be forgiven so if they win the championship in 2020 but you fast forward over the next eight years they don't win and then in 2027 we're taking calls from Yankee fans hopefully we're still on the air and we're still alive complaining that they haven't won in six and seven years and they've got a 37 year old pitcher who's doing nothing making 34 million dollars a year 36 million dollars a year right because you know the back end of that deal he's not gonna be worth that right I mean how many pitchers at the age of 37 38 are pitching where they deserve that kind of money unless he can reinvent himself which is very very difficult to do they did this because of now they want to win now and they gave him a full no trade clause and he has an opt out after five years so if he's still pitching great at the age of 34 maybe opts out and I think if he opted out you should probably say goodbye although maybe maybe in those five years he wins four youngs and then everything changes but I think it's I you know take the money aside take the years aside and you have to ask yourself this one question that the Yankees get better today the answer is a resulting yes how did they not get better they acquired eight not a good pitcher a great picture great