TAMPA -- Add Yankees ace Gerrit Cole to the growing list of major leaguers that have sounded off on the way some MLB teams think internally about players in the wake of former Mariners president Kevin Mather's inflammatory comments about service-time manipulation and free agency.
"Every player should wake up and read the news on the guy in the Mariners," said Cole, one of eight players on the MLB Players Association's executive subcommittee. "It's just tired. It's tired, man, and I think players are over it. And if they haven't been awakened to that type of behavior, that's what goes on.