The nearly inevitable finally materialized for New York Yankees stalwart Gerrit Cole on Monday evening, when the team announced that after nearly 2,000 regular season innings and years of additional late October duty,

In the midst of a nightmare Spring Training, where the Bombers have lost stars Gerrit Cole, Giancarlo Stanton, Luis Gil, among others, the Yankees have seen their World Series odds drop. The Post’s Jon Heyman has rightly called it “The spring from hell.”