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What Gerrit Cole's Record Deal Means for the Rest of MLB

Gerrit Cole is a Yankee. From that one sentence, you know that this is good for Cole, and the Yankees, and Scott Boras. (And if you want more than that one sentence, Tom Verducci wrote many sentences about it here.) But what about the rest of baseball? Here’s your rundown on what Cole’s signing means for…

…The Teams Who Lost Out: Angels and Dodgers

Even before the start of this offseason, Cole’s free agency was often forecast for one of two directions: He’d go to New York to join the Yankees, or he’d return home to Southern California with either the Angels or the Dodgers.