If you want to make former New York Yankees reliever Goose Gossage blow a gasket, simply show him a computer.
In an interview with Tampa Bay Times reporter Marc Topkin, Gossage vigorously lamented analytics-focused management. During the diatribe, he singled out Yankees general manager Brian Cashman:
“Go ahead boys, take all the credit—fire up your computer, put in all the information and see what it comes up with,” he told Topkin. “(Yankees GM Brian) Cashman has 20 of them (guys) running around. He stops and 20 of them bump into each other.