Cole pitcher contracts with Yankees 5:37 on December 19
Pitcher Gerrit Cole, who signed a contract with the major league Yankees for the highest ever price of about 35.3 billion yen, said on the 18th that he was eager to become a champion.
Cole pitcher is 29 years old. With fastball over 160 km and fast knuckle curve as the weapon, the regular season has 20 wins and 5 losses with Astros, a defense rate of 2.50, 326 strikeouts, and the best defense rate of the American League Shined the title of the most strikeout strikeout.
Call pitcher, who became a free agent after losing Astros in the World Series, has signed a large contract with Yankees for a total of $ 324 million in 9 years, which is the highest ever pitcher, and about 35.3 billion yen in Japanese yen Tied
Cole pitcher attended a conference at the Yankee Stadium in New York on the 18th, touching the boyhood he spent as a Yankees fan, “This was a dream. I ’m really eager to be a champion. "There is no better place than New York," he said, enthusiastic about winning the World Series in the Yankees.
Since 2009, when Yankees became world champion with Hideki Matsui's success, he has moved away from winning the World Series, and the team has made the call pitcher the most important issue off the ground.