{"id":141349,"date":"2026-02-22T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141349\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:00:09","slug":"reason-needs-to-prevail-with-gerrit-coles-yankees-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141349\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason needs to prevail with Gerrit Cole&#8217;s Yankees return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA \u2014 He can see it now. So close. Yet \u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gerrit Cole tamps it down. He wants to pitch in major league games more than ever, fueled by how much he missed it last season \u2014 realized at a heightened level just how much every fiber of his being is consumed with the art.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And here he was on a Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/20\/sports\/gerrit-cole-is-already-giving-yankees-fans-reason-to-dream\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pumping and spotting fastballs<\/a> in his first live batting practice since Tommy John surgery and waking up Saturday feeling great. Oh, the joy of being a major league pitcher. But not quite. So far into the marathon. And miles to go. The food on the table, but you can\u2019t eat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a little easier at this point, because, you know, you start to kind of get over the horizon, right?\u201d Cole said a day after the bellwether of facing hitters. \u201cYou\u2019re starting to see the sun come up on the other side. And the challenge is: Don\u2019t sprint, right? Just keep doing what you\u2019re doing. You\u2019ve gotten here because of what you\u2019ve done. You\u2019re gonna get there by doing the same thing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA \u2014 He can see it now. So close. Yet \u2026\u00a0 Gerrit Cole tamps it down. He wants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22383,20,9,11,10,321,319,431,428,55941],"class_list":{"0":"post-141349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-gerrit-cole","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-headlines","12":"tag-new-york-news","13":"tag-new-york-yankees","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-sports-columnists","16":"tag-sports-plus","17":"tag-spring-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}