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[Sports Center/Comprehensive Report] Yankee ace Cole (Gerrit Cole) completed his last boarding in spring training today, and his condition seems to have been adjusted in place.

However, Cole's average speed of the speedball today has a drop compared to usual, which also makes the outside world worry about what happened to Cole.

In today's spring training warm-up match between the Yankees and the Twins, Kerr started 5.2 innings, allowed 5 hits and gave up 1 run. He used 84 balls and threw 3 strikeouts and no walks.

In this game, Cole's four-seam fastball averaged 96.4 mph (approximately 155.1 kilometers), which was slower than the first few starts in spring training.

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Yankees head coach Aaron Boone doesn't think it's too much to worry about. "I've seen a lot of balls going to 94 to 95 miles, but I've also seen 7s and 8s (ball speed), I think he just wants to play normally. In that case, try something new and see what changes, now is the best time to let him experiment with new things.”

Kerr played in 5 games in spring training, pitching 21.2 innings with a 3.32 ERA, 27 strikeouts and 1 walk.

After today's vote, Cole is not expected to board the board. The next start will have to wait until the opening day of the season, when the Yankees will face the Giants. At that time, Cole will serve as the Yankees' opening game starter, and the opponent will launch Webb (Logan Webb) to meet.

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