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
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.
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,
adding bite coffin crucial nail punishment stuff
We're not able to put the nail in the coffin so to speak, just adding on. All crucial runs, all stuff that comes back to bite you later. We must be gluttons for punishment I guess.
defensive saw spring thunder
We thought he was a defensive guy. Then in spring training, we saw he had some thunder in his hands. We'll take it.
coach great help pick pitching tweak
We think we can help him in some cases. He's always had a great arm. Mechanically, there's always something a pitching coach can pick up to tweak a little bit. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.
baseball classic good kids normally
The good thing about the World Baseball Classic is we get to see some kids play that we normally wouldn't.
best coming matter might proved proving winning
Winning like we did ... it might have proved something to the Phillies. But that doesn't matter as much as proving it to ourselves. Coming back is the best way to go. A 'we-can-do-it moment.' Yeah, I like that. Because we can do it.
overall pitches
When you don't get calls, then you don't pitches where you want them to be. But overall he pitched pretty well.