 Garrett Cole has had an exceptional start to his Yankees career and he is the subject of the interview today with Meredith Moracovitz Garrett just how encouraged have you been not only by your last outing But really the performance of the starters as a whole to start the season. I Mean we've been throwing the ball really well both rotation and the bullpen You know, it's really kind of hard to ask for anything more. I think we've been pretty efficient Everybody's feeling really good and we're making a lot of good pitches and Keeping ourselves in the ball game. So Corey Kluber will get the ball this afternoon. What's stood out to you about the way? He threw his first time out Yeah, I think just a little bit of that moxie some big big pitches in big situations that you got to execute I think he was you know a little bit left with Some to be desired on execution in terms of you know Total amount of pitches but you know when he needed to make a pitch He he did and and he kept his tight in the ball game and got as deep as he could I expect him to you know pitch pretty well tonight doesn't Eddie know you're doing live TV there He walks right in front of you and he doesn't know he wanted to put he was like he wanted to put bunny ears on me He was like but but I guess he just didn't didn't recognize we were doing in center field We'll give it. We'll give him a pass this time. You know what when you look at this afternoon It's opening day for the raise. There's been a little bit of a rivalry brewing between the two teams since 2018 Do you expect that to carry over into this season? Yeah, I do And will it sting a little bit watching them raise the banner this afternoon? Won't feel good Do you feel as though you guys have the better team in 2021? Yeah, I think we do You know, but you still got to go out there and still got to go out there and prove it so paper is one thing and games are the real thing and so You know, we're we're certainly confident and You know, but we we got to get that we got to get the job done when it's when it's all said and done So do you look at that team any differently considering the fact they were without without some of those big arms in their rotation this year Like a Blake's now I mean, it's gonna be harder It's gonna be hard to replace, you know, they kind of worked at Blake's done you know talking about a side young award winner and You know up-and-coming star in the game and obviously Charlie brings a pretty steady heartbeat I'm well aware of that and some big pitches and big moments. That's kind of you know, been the MO of his career So it's gonna be hard. It would be hard for me to say that that doesn't have an impact But at the same time, you know, this team is always seems like playing really well together As a group You know, they're they're doing a lot of the details and a little things well that that that kind of give them an edge on the margins And I think that's what makes them competitive year in and year out at least over the last handful of years And it makes them a tough team to beat whether you're, you know, outstacked on them in paper or not You know, so, you know, let's stay one of the vision last year a lot of you know, a lot of credit goes to them They play good baseball. They got the world series They did they did a nice job and you know, I I expect them to come out and it'd be pretty much the same regardless if they lost a couple players