The Yankees slumped through their first few games of the season badly enough to fall to 6-11 at one point, their worst start since 1991. Although they fell back to .500 last night, they’ve still been playing better lately, going 10-5 since the poor beginning. Several players have gone hot and cold during the first five weeks of the season, but we can safely say that there have been two consistently dominant players on the roster whose level of play is a notch or two above everybody else: Gerrit Cole and Aroldis Chapman.
Much has been written about Cole at this point.