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Buster Olney Names Gerrit Cole as Ninth Best Starting Pitcher

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Buster Olney named his top ten starting pitchers in the majors(subscription required) on Monday morning and Gerrit Cole came in ninth place on the list. The list is heavy with NL pitchers, as they took the top five spots and also 8-10. Olney points out that Cole was very consistent during the 2015 season and that he also likes how he handles in-game adversity. Olney ranked him right between Max Scherzer and Matt Harvey in the top ten.

Cole finished with a 2.60 ERA in 208 innings, with 202 strikeouts and a 1.09 WHIP. Those numbers are career bests in all four categories for the 25-year-old. He finished fourth in the NL Cy Young voting and 19th in the MVP voting, plus he was named to his first All-Star team.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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