GERRIT COLE RUMORS & GOSSIP
Prospect Watch: Kingham and Taillon Have Good Starts While Cole Gets Hammered
TOP OF THE SYSTEM
A look at how the current top 20 prospects did today. Note that this list doesn’t include players currently in the majors. If a player is in the majors, he will be removed, everyone below him will be shifted up a spot, and a new player will be added to the bottom of the list. Rankings are from the pre-season rankings, and links to each prospect writeup can be...
Minor League Schedule: Cole And Taillon Both Start This Afternoon
Big day for prospects on the mound today, with the top two pitchers in the system both going. Not only are Gerrit Cole and Jameson Taillon going today though, Nick Kingham also gets the start for Bradenton, giving the Pirates three top ten players all starting on the same day. For a look at the possible starters over the next few weeks, please check out our Probable Pitchers Chart...
Prospect Notebook: Cole Making Progress, But Still Needs Those Strikeouts
Gerrit Cole has cut down on the walks recently, but needs to add some strikeouts.
At the start of the year, the expectation from most Pirates fans was for Gerrit Cole to go to Triple-A as a formality, just long enough to get an extra year of control and avoid Super Two status. As it turned out, Cole had some work to do at the level before he could be considered for the majors.
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Minor League Schedule: 5/14/13
Top prospect Gerrit Cole gets the start today for Indianapolis, as they open up a four-game series against Buffalo. Both Indianapolis and Buffalo are in first place in their divisions. Nick Kingham gets the start for Bradenton today. He is tied with Jameson Taillon in strikeouts with 47, the second highest total in the organization, trailing only Andy Oliver, who has fifty. Altoona...
Pirates rumors: Gerrit Cole could be coming soon
Scouts who have watched Pittsburgh Pirates top pitching prospect Gerrit Cole pitch tell Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports that "he could go now" directly into the team's starting rotation. While Pittsburgh is likely to give veteran arms -- including Francisco Liriano, Charlie Morton and Jeff Karstens -- shots at the rotation first, it appears that Cole could soon push...
Gerrit Cole had a rough day on Sunday
I was excited to watch Gerrit Cole pitch on Sunday afternoon. When the Minor League season started, I bought the MiLB.tv package for the first time since it's come into existence, mainly for the purpose of watching Cole and Jameson Taillon pitch this year (I debate buying it every year, but only the teams in the high minors are regularly broadcast and Indianapolis is usually...
Let the Gerrit Cole Watch begin
Early this afternoon, Matt Bandi, James Santelli, and I had a Twitter conversation about when we expected to see Gerrit Cole, the merits of letting him dominate in the minors vs. struggle a bit in the Majors, and what the Pirates were hoping to see from him in Indianapolis in general. I'm sticking with my earlier prediction, that Cole will get just about as many starts with Indianapolis...
SCARY MOMENT
Pirates top prospect takes line drive off head
This is graphic, and scary. Pittsburgh Pirates prospect Gerrit Cole, the number one overall pick in last year's amateur draft, was hit in the face with a line drive last night in the Altoona Curve's game against the Harrisburg Senators. Cole has down for a substantial amount of time after he was hit, but eventually returned to his feet, and finished out the inning. He left...
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