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Stephen Strasburg Is Back With the Nationals for Record Money. Is Gerrit Cole Up Next?

The ace followed up his World Series win with the largest total contract for a pitcher in baseball history
Photo by Toni L. Sandys/The Washington Post via Getty Images

We react to the news that Stephen Strasburg is headed back to the Washington Nationals for the largest total contract for a pitcher in baseball history. What does this mean for his (maybe former) teammate Anthony Rendon, as well as the other top starting pitcher on the market, Gerrit Cole?

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Zach writes about basketball, baseball, and assorted pop culture topics.
Ben is a writer, podcaster, and editor who covers culture and sports. He hosts ‘Effectively Wild’ at FanGraphs and previously wrote for FiveThirtyEight and Grantland, served as editor-in-chief of Baseball Prospectus, and authored ‘The MVP Machine’ and ‘The Only Rule Is It Has to Work.’

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