Fansided · Dec 14, 2019
Astros: Revisiting the Gerrit Cole trade from 2018
Time to use the benefit of hindsight to reevaluate the Gerrit Cole trade.
Now that Gerrit Cole‘s time in Houston has come to a close, it’s a good opportunity to take a look back at the trade that brought him to the Astros in the first place. On January 13, 2018. Jeff Luhnow sent Joe Musgrove, Colin Moran, Michael Feliz and Jason Martin to Pittsburgh in exchange for Cole.
We all know how brilliant Cole was in his two-year run in Houston. He managed two Top-Five finishes in the Cy Young Award voting and led the majors in strikeouts per nine innings in both seasons. He went 35-10 with a 2.68 ERA in 65 regular season starts.