Aaron Boone ultimately opted for pedigree, class and past performance (before this year) over the stats of the season, and went with Gerrit Cole.
Yankees manager Aaron Boone’s call on the Game 1 starting pitcher in the ALDS versus Cleveland seemed like such a close and tough choice you could imagine him asking the two main candidates to draw straws.
Boone ultimately opted for pedigree, class and past performance over the statistics of the season, and went with Cole, the big-money man who came here to show he belonged on the biggest stage, and could help deliver a championship.
But the reality is that Cole is a big-game pitcher, always has been, as his career 2.82 postseason ERA attests. Which is partly why the Yankees awarded him the biggest contract ever give to a major league pitcher back at the winter meetings in San Diego. That was a big moment for both Boone and general manager Brian Cashman, who broke open a few bottles of wine at the downtown San Diego hotel to raise a toast to the immediate improvement of their World Series odds. They seemed unnaturally happy.
Surely, there was reason to turn to Nasty Nestor, whose first full season in the bigs turned out to be a smooth ride.
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