Willie Randolph
Willie Randolph
Willie Larry Randolphis an American former Major League Baseball second baseman and manager. During an 18-year baseball career, he played from 1975 to 1992 for six different teams, most notably the New York Yankees. He has joined ESPN as a postseason baseball analyst, beginning in September 2013. He will mainly be on Baseball Tonight, and provide updates during Monday and Wednesday night September network telecasts...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth6 July 1954
CityHoly Hill, SC
chance guys helped hurting next pushing reason time tweak walk
We had to. You have guys that tweak a hamstring and walk off the field. But any time you've got to be helped off the field, you're not going to be making your next start. There's no reason to take a chance on hurting him and pushing that. That to me was no question. There's no way in the world he's going to be able to go in time.
bullpen job nice starters unless
Our pitching. I told them that we're not going to do anything unless we pitched well. Our starters have done a nice job and our bullpen has been much better.
league pitching
Our pitching is like everyone else's in the league - very uncertain.
ball decent eventually everybody game last obviously speed year
Our game is speed and obviously you can't use your speed if you don't put the ball in play. I think he's eventually going to be a decent leadoff hitter. Last year everybody wanted him to be Rickey Henderson, and he couldn't do that.
baseball came classic guys overall played pleased ready
Overall I was pleased with the spring. All the guys who played in the World Baseball Classic came back healthy. We're ready to go.
gut heart
I still feel in my heart and my gut that it was the right thing to do,
given
I think if it was anything serious, they would have given me a heads-up on it. I don't think it's anything big.
I think he's OK. I don't think it'll be that serious.
gets needs sure
I think he understands that he needs to make sure everything is right before he gets out there.
ball coming hand last looks looser totally
I think he looks totally different than he was last year. He's looser and freer, and the ball is coming out of his hand real well.
exactly mound throw
I think he'll probably throw off the mound soon. Obviously, he's going to have to get off the mound sometime. I just can't tell you exactly when.
good
I think he's going to be a good player.
mike rushing
I think Mike is going to be a little longer. I don't see him rushing back or anything like that.
five four guys last
Just because that last four or five guys don't look too promising, anything can happen.