Gerrit Cole is the latest Major League player to sound off on the way some teams think internally about players in the wake of former Seattle Mariners president Kevin Mather's inflammatory comments about service-time manipulation and free agency.

On Tuesday, Cole urged every player in the league to "wake up and read the news on the guy in the Mariners."

"It's just tired," said Cole, one of eight players on the MLB Players Association's executive subcommittee."It's tired, man, and I think players are over it. And if they haven't been awakened to that type of behavior, that's what goes on."

Mather, who resigned on Monday, criticized the English-speaking capabilities of two members of the organization, and he also spoke about some of the Mariners' top prospects not starting the season with the team as a way to manipulate their major league service time.

"Those conversations are being had, and unfortunately that's the kind of way a lot of clubs are acting," Cole said. "That's just not productive for anyone. It's not productive for the product. You're not putting the best players on the field for people to see. This guy's talking about players that are making him money. The product is the people that he's talking poorly about."