Some interesting news came out of Pirates manager Clint Hurdle's press scrum this afternoon. When asked whether Gerrit Cole making his major league debut changes anything in terms of his decision-making tonight – like watching pitch counts more closely, or being sensitive to early jams – Clint said that he will no longer be monitoring pitch counts when it comes to starters. They will no longer factor into his decision-making when comes to starters (he will still pay close attention to the pitch counts of relievers).

Because I think this is interesting and important, I’m going to provide a fairly full transcript with more notes from the scrum to follow in another post: