TAMPA, Fla. -- Goose Gossage doesn't have a problem with the Yankees, who won't invite him to be a spring training guest instructor after making inflammatory remarks the last two years.
"I don't like (general manager Brian) Cashman," Gossage said in a phone interview from his Colorado home. "That's all. It's not a secret."
Gossage, a 66-year-old Hall of Fame pitcher, said Cashman would prefer to "have a nerd in uniform" as manager questioned his leadership.
"If he had any balls, he'd do what he wants to do," Gossage said of Cashman, whom Baseball America named the 2017 Executive of the Year after the Yankees turned their farm system into one of the league's best and the big-league club reached Game 7 of the American League Championship Series.