Nov
09
Willie and the bench
ByThe Brewers have tabbed Willie Randolph to be Ken Macha’s bench coach. This isn’t a bad gig for Randolph, who hoped to land a managerial spot somewhere this winter. One day, hopefully, Willie can come back to the Yanks. I know he didn’t leave the Mets with the kindest of reviews, but I think he’d make a good manager in the Bronx.
Plus, Willie will be a nice option if Macha manages to tank it early and get fired.
I believe he has an option in his contract where he could leave for a managerial gig but I am not positive on that.. Maybe he will leave if Seattle offered him their job if he has that option
I think in the NFL all coaches have a chance to to take a higher postion for another team without restrictions. ie: position coach Can leave for a coordinator job, coordinater can leave for a head coaching job. Baseball should do the same.
Teams aren’t allowed to block an upward move I believe. So a bench coach can leave to become a manager somewhere else, or an assistant GM can leave to become GM elsewhere.
Lateral moves can be blocked though, so a scouting director can’t leave to become a scouting director elsewhere without team approval. It’s a courtesy thing, not preventing someone from bigger and better things.
In any case, once he signs with another team the old contract is done, so the Mets just saved themselves 2.25 mil. Also, I haven’t seen what Willie’s making, but in all likelihood he’s taking a huge pay cut.
watch the brewers win every game against the mets this year.
hahaaaa, i hope so. that would be so mets.
i’m happy for willie, he deserves another senior coaching spot. he really didn’t do well with the mets, but MLB manager seems like a position where guys need a fall once or twice before they get the hang of it.
You want Willie to come to the Yankees WHY? I hope he never comes back to the Yankees beyond spring training.
Loved Willie as a player and as coach for the Yanks. But after seeing many of the things he did over in Shea, I have no desire to see him ever manage the Yanks. Nor do I think he would be very good at it if given the opportunity.
Then again, maybe he learned from his mistakes in Shea.
“I think he’d make a good manager in the Bronx.”
But Joe G. is the greatest thing since sliced-bread!