The Pirates have shut down star right-hander Gerrit Cole for the rest of the season, as Rob Biertempfel of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review first suggested on Twitter. It does not seem as if there is any concern about a significant injury, with the team likely deciding that it isn’t worth continuing to press a critical piece of the team’s future rotation.
Cole is continuing to deal with discomfort and inflammation in his right elbow, Stephen Nesbitt of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette tweets. Specifically, per a club announcement, “posterior inflammation” is the reason that Cole will end his year on the 60-day DL.
Things didn’t go well for Cole in his recent outing, as he tried to return from brief rest. While the big righty was working in the mid-to-upper nineties, he surrendered five earned runs on four hits and four walks in just two innings of work.
Pittsburgh is done for the year so they should shut him down so he can get healthy for next season
Copy and paste this article and send to Red Sox fans who wanted them to mortgage the farm for Cole. Excellent pitcher, but he’s staring at a huge Tommy John poster every night.
As a life long Pirate fan, i grudgingly support this move.
I am upset that the season will end after game 162(no playoffs this year).
That is the tough part.
Just hoping Cole did not do any more damage after his effort last night.
Here’s to Gerritt getting his arm some rest, get on a strict work out routine, and come back in 2017, throwing the ball like the pre 2016 version.
Smart move by the Pirates!
Ditto on what you said. He was hurt since last off season. Hopefully, if he needs any kind of procedure to fix what is wrong, the do it now and get him rehabbing sooner and not later.
“Posterior inflammation”? Does he have hemorrhoids? Nothing to be ashamed of, George Brett had surgery on his during the ’80 World Series.