Goose Gossage nerds, Math has taken over baseball. Hall of Fame bullpen Rich "Goose" Gossage despises it.
Goose, as the retired analgesic is frequently known, let apart on the accompaniment of the bold during an account with ESPN on Thursday. The above New York Yankees abundant was alive with the team's accepted players at a bounce training ability in Florida.
The 64-year-old Gossage showed affluence of pepper, as able-bodied as vinegar, in an expletive-laden bluster adjoin front-office admiral who accept blatant degrees but never played big-league baseball.
"The bold is acceptable a freaking antic because of the nerds who are active it," Gossage tells ESPN. "I'll acquaint you what has happened, these guys played rotisserie baseball at Harvard or wherever the (f-bomb) they went, and they anticipation they ample the (f-bomb)ing bold out."
Gossage's abuse is a absolute advance on the analytic access that has taken over baseball back the Oakland A's acclimated it to body acknowledged teams on the bargain in the aboriginal 2000s. The abstraction took off afterwards Michael Lewis' book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game" brought it to the mainstream. Now, teams are congenital by spreadsheets rather than on instincts about how harder a bullpen can bandy or far a hitter can accident the ball.
Gossage, a nine-time All-Star who played for 21 seasons and had 310 saves, acutely doesn't buy it. The hurler, accepted for his blubbery mustache and abrupt persona, didn't anon acknowledge to a appeal for comment.
Gossage ability accept been demography a agilely buried attempt at Matt Klentak, an analytics adept who was assassin endure year as the accepted administrator of the Philadelphia Phillies at age 35. His alone on-diamond baseball acquaintance was as captain of his baseball aggregation at Dartmouth College, area he got a amount in economics.
Or maybe he was demography aim at Los Angeles Dodgers GM Farhan Zaidi, 39, an economist who accustomed degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California at Berkeley. Zaidi absitively to get into baseball afterwards account "Moneyball" and eventually got a job with the Oakland A's alive beneath GM Billy Beane.
"A agglomeration of (f-bomb)ing nerds active the game," Gossage told ESPN. "You can't accelerate into additional base. You can't yield out the (f-bomb)ing catcher... You can't angle central anymore.
"I'd like to beating some of these (f-bomb)ers on their ass and see how they would do adjoin pitchers in the old days," he added.
Goose, as the retired analgesic is frequently known, let apart on the accompaniment of the bold during an account with ESPN on Thursday. The above New York Yankees abundant was alive with the team's accepted players at a bounce training ability in Florida.
The 64-year-old Gossage showed affluence of pepper, as able-bodied as vinegar, in an expletive-laden bluster adjoin front-office admiral who accept blatant degrees but never played big-league baseball.
"The bold is acceptable a freaking antic because of the nerds who are active it," Gossage tells ESPN. "I'll acquaint you what has happened, these guys played rotisserie baseball at Harvard or wherever the (f-bomb) they went, and they anticipation they ample the (f-bomb)ing bold out."
Gossage's abuse is a absolute advance on the analytic access that has taken over baseball back the Oakland A's acclimated it to body acknowledged teams on the bargain in the aboriginal 2000s. The abstraction took off afterwards Michael Lewis' book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game" brought it to the mainstream. Now, teams are congenital by spreadsheets rather than on instincts about how harder a bullpen can bandy or far a hitter can accident the ball.
Gossage, a nine-time All-Star who played for 21 seasons and had 310 saves, acutely doesn't buy it. The hurler, accepted for his blubbery mustache and abrupt persona, didn't anon acknowledge to a appeal for comment.
Gossage ability accept been demography a agilely buried attempt at Matt Klentak, an analytics adept who was assassin endure year as the accepted administrator of the Philadelphia Phillies at age 35. His alone on-diamond baseball acquaintance was as captain of his baseball aggregation at Dartmouth College, area he got a amount in economics.
Or maybe he was demography aim at Los Angeles Dodgers GM Farhan Zaidi, 39, an economist who accustomed degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California at Berkeley. Zaidi absitively to get into baseball afterwards account "Moneyball" and eventually got a job with the Oakland A's alive beneath GM Billy Beane.
"A agglomeration of (f-bomb)ing nerds active the game," Gossage told ESPN. "You can't accelerate into additional base. You can't yield out the (f-bomb)ing catcher... You can't angle central anymore.
"I'd like to beating some of these (f-bomb)ers on their ass and see how they would do adjoin pitchers in the old days," he added.
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