New York Yankees ace Gerrit Cole is an intense player who takes the game extremely seriously. That intensity is part of the reason Cole has become one of the best pitchers in baseball and is currently in the running for a Cy Young Award.
However, sometimes that serious approach can rub him the wrong way with some of his teammates, as it did with outfielder Brett Gardner after the MLB crackdown on spider tack.
NJ Advance Media’s Bob Klapisch stated that Gerrit Cole shot back at Brett Gardner after the veteran captain was joking around in the clubhouse:
Losing Spider Tack was obviously a setback to Cole and other pitchers who considered it indispensable.