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
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.
everybody good sufficient time weeks
We have to make the most of what this is. It will be good to get everybody back and get into a flow. We have two weeks to go. That's sufficient time to get it rolling.
arm bit body feels ideas knows notions obviously
We have to just go with how he feels day-to-day. Pedro knows how to get ready, and he knows his body as well as anyone, so I didn't go in with any preconceived ideas or notions about anything. His arm is healthy, and obviously he's a little bit behind.
continue good hands reason starting third
We're working on little things with his hands and feet. Nothing major. He's starting to feel comfortable with the things we're doing. He's still learning. But he's young and he'll continue to work. There's no reason he can't be a good big-league third baseman.
ask
I wasn't in the situation, so you'll have to ask him,
hope ready
I would hope that when he's ready, he's ready to play,
assume both guys laying leaning maybe nasty start toward
You kind of flinch a little bit, when you see can see that both of them have a bead on it. When the guys start laying out a little bit, leaning toward the ball, that's when you assume that maybe something nasty could happen. Very scary.
bring himself hit homer might run setting table unless wall win
You bring so much more to the table with all those tools. Unless he's really setting himself back, that's part of being a professional athlete. We didn't want him to run through a wall or anything like that, but ... he might hit a three-run homer to win a ballgame.
game mean next series winning
Winning the first game of the series doesn't mean anything if we don't win the next two, or one of the next two.
time
Time is dwindling down, ... We can use a jolt right now.
great lose pitcher roger won
You know he's going to do something special, ... but because we haven't won a lot of his games, we kind of lose that. I've said it about Roger Clemens: When you have a great pitcher like that, it's not always automatic.