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
three
We'll get two out of three and go on the road,
satisfied three
We'll get two out of three and be satisfied with that.
baseball finish finishes home regardless schedule sets trip
We'll know where we are by the end of this trip and then we'll still have to go home and finish strong. A lot can happen, but the way the schedule sets up, regardless of how this trip finishes up, we still have a lot of baseball to play.
affect short
You'd like to have all your players. We're short and have to go with what we've got. I don't know how this will affect us.
ahead capitalize gonna happen teams
You'd like to capitalize on the teams ahead of you, but it's not like it's just gonna happen that way all the time.
advantage arm bottom intimidate line strength throwing totally trying
We're not trying to go out and totally intimidate anybody. The bottom line is, we do have arm strength, and that's to your advantage in some ways. The key, really, is throwing strikes.
bring guys later might normally pay season somebody spring
We could look at guys we might normally not see much of in spring training, and this could pay off later in the season if we need to bring somebody up.
closer win
We have to win the game. He's our closer and I thought he'd come in and close it out.
season
We'll probably be going back-and-forth all season with these guys.
time
Time is dwindling down, ... We can use a jolt right now.
baseball good played
We played some good teams, some good baseball at times. Just didn't get over the hump.
heat trust
When you're in the heat of something, you go with what you've got or what you trust, OK?
bad good
We had a little of everything -- good and bad and Julio.
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.