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Please don’t call this version of Gerrit Cole “vintage” Cole. The Yankees righthander, who reinvented himself in Houston, trading a sinker-heavy approach for a classic four-seam mode, has done it again. Cole 3.0 has a new delivery, a new changeup and a new four-seamer.
