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With the Major League Baseball General Managers Meetings well underway in Scottsdale, Arizona, New York Yankees GM Brian Cashman is now preparing for talks with Houston Astros 20-game winner Gerrit Cole. In fact, while experts and even oddsmakers have favored the Los Angeles Angels to land Cole, the real favorite is now Cashman’s club.
At least, that’s the view of one MLB insider, former New York Mets General Manager Jim Duquette, who declared the Yankees leaders in the Cole sweepstakes during an appearance on the New York cable TV station SNY on Tuesday, quoted via Twitter.
“They are the frontrunner for Gerrit Cole, more than any other team out there,” Duquette said in the interview. “They have the ability to spend money, and they have the ability to wait as long as it’s going to take for him to sign.”