His right elbow scarred and his season ruined before it began, Gerrit Cole has not allowed Tommy John surgery to stop him from pitching.
“I still pitch before I go to bed every night,” the Yankees’ sidelined ace said Monday. “I haven’t given up any hits recently.”
Cole, speaking for the first time since he underwent ulnar collateral ligament reconstruction with the assist of a brace in March, simply meant that he’s been pretending to pitch, the way that a child might while bored and itching to set foot on a field.