Gerrit Cole touches 99 mph in spring debut, 372 days after Tommy John surgery

The road back from Tommy John surgery is often described as a long, dark tunnel with very little light at the end until the very final stages. For New York Yankees star Gerrit Cole, that tunnel finally opened up into the bright Florida sunshine on Wednesday afternoon.

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