The pitcher of the Yankees de New York, Gerrit Cole, sent fire saying that the teams are manipulating the prospects of the MLB.
After seeing how the president of the Mariners, Kevin Mather, publicly mocked the future of one of his best prospects simply because of his age, despite having the conditions and skills to debut in the MLB, Gerrit Cole had a few words about it.
Cole said it’s unattractive to see how managers’ analytics define the game, plus how they don’t go up when it’s due to a prospect just to get a little more control over their years of service and salary arbitrations.
In other words, some teams do not raise the prospects in due time in order to control their contracts for longer.
Here his words:
“I don’t want to see those kinds of things (analytics) used to make the product worse or manipulate overhead. That is just stupid. “
“I certainly don’t want to restrict someone’s knowledge or try to find some kind of advantage with numbers. They have a place in the game, ”Cole explained. “When analytics are used to suppress salary, or to manipulate length of service, or for things other than trying to put the best product on the field, that’s worrying.”
This is nothing more than the same explanation of the case of Julio Rodríguez, a prospect of the sailors who was ranked number 5 in the entire MLB and the former Seattle Mariners president said he wouldn’t go up for the next three years simply because he’s too young.
By the way, the highest paid player in the history of the New York Yankees, Gerrit Cole, talked about that time Blake Snell was forced to abandon a brilliant World Series outing of the MLB 2020.
“I hope that if you take the pitcher out too early in a pivotal game in the World Series, the next time you have a chance to get there, you might make a different decision.”
Here the report:
Gerrit Cole: Using analytics to make product worse is ‘just stupid’ https://t.co/19IgO9oisP pic.twitter.com/CGH9ZidzfP
— theScore MLB (@theScoreMLB) February 23, 2021
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