Mets: Gossage’s comments about Cespedes and others are off base

This week, Rich “Goose” Gossage had a few things to say about Jose Bautista, Yoenis Cespedes, Bryce Harper, and baseball in general.

In summary, Gossage does not like bat flips, on-field celebrations, or SABR Metrics (he thinks the game is being run by “nerds” from Harvard). In speaking about Bautista and Cespedes, Gossage told ESPN’s Andrew Marchand:

Bautista is a f—ing disgrace to the game. He’s embarrassing to all the Latin players, whoever played before him. Throwing his bat and acting like a fool, like all those guys in Toronto. Cespedes, same thing.

Gossage went on to talk about Harper, after Harper said baseball had become “tired”. From Matt Snyder of Yahoo:

What does this kid know? This…