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
braves game id lose somebody year
If somebody told me wed lose every game to the Braves this year and be in the World Series, Id take that.
breath held moving
I held my breath there for a second. But you could see he's not moving too well. He didn't have any hops.
breath hold looks taking talked
I hold my breath a lot. When I've talked to him about taking a day, he looks at me like I'm nuts.
hope
I hope so, ... That's encouraging. That's good. We can use him.
ahead coming guy normal
He's so much ahead of a normal guy coming off rehab.
guy respect tremendous
He still could go on one of those tears. He's still a guy you game-plan around, and I still have tremendous respect for him.
dinner people wish
He's one of those people you wish you could go have dinner with.
ball hit kansas might player return saw tried
Hopefully, he'll return to the player I saw in Kansas City, who hit the ball the other way more. He might have tried to do too much visualizing.
minor serious surprised test
He told me he was really kind of surprised that this has been so overblown. I thought the test was just a minor thing or whatever. There's nothing serious there.
ball elevation good threw
He threw the ball very nice. He's got some good elevation to his pitch, and I like his approach.
baseman second
He's the only second baseman we have. We've got to get him going.
assignment baseman bat call rehab second swinging
He's the only second baseman we have and we have to get him going. He's been swinging the bat pretty well (during a rehab assignment for Norfolk), and we'll get him right in there. ... We wouldn't call him up if he wasn't ready.
guy spots trust
He's a guy you feel you can trust in big spots because he's been there and he has the funk,
believer bit extra firm guy matter time wrong year
I'm a firm believer that if you can give a guy an extra day, then there's nothing wrong with doing it. Everyone this time of year is a little bit banged up, a little bit sore, a little bit this, a little bit that. It doesn't matter because you have to take the ball.