No Gerrit Cole or Anthony Rendon will chase Dodgers into next October

What's best about free agency is the immediacy. Call Scott Boras, join the billion-dollar winter, get yourself an ace, a third baseman, the other ace, a second baseman, an outfielder, whatever fills the holes left by the good decisions played out, the bad decisions that can't be rationalized away anymore. The New York Yankees buy Gerrit Cole, because they are the Yankees and it's only money and seasons are meant for championships, even as — especially as — they'd just gone a whole decade without one.