Poor Willie Randolph

[golfer]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

And this would accomplish what exactly?

When your pitching staff was as bad as his was down the stretch, what is he supposed to do?

Why does everybody need to fire someone? Realistically the way they are throwing the ball they were going out early in the playoffs anyway. They were a flawed team and that flaw was badly exposed during the 2nd half of the season, not bad managing.

5-12 in the last 17 games.. the pitching stunk, but so did the defense. the Mets were more interested in performing their home run celebrations/hand slapping than they were in running out ground balls . As I said, it's not all Willie's fault, but he is ultimately responsible. The team quit on him, a top quality manager finds a way to get them to the playoffs despite all the problems down the stretch, even if the eventuality is an early exit. In my opinion, while Willie is not a bad manager, he has done nothing to prove he is above average (although I must admit my opinion comes mostly from perception, because I don't follow this all that closely, because I really don't even like baseball). I do consider myself an expert on heartbreak/dissapointment, as I have been a life-long Jets fan.

[MaTH716]

First thing, I really do not think that they are that young of a team.Sure they have Wright, Reyes, Beltran and a couple of young unproven arms. Guys like Maine and Perez do have potential, but still have a way to go. Milliadge looks like he could be special if he ever stopped dancing and watching his home runs. As far as Pelfrey and Humber, who knows. Do you remember Isringhausen, Pulphiser and Wilson? So I think they have to tinker with this team.
As far as Randolph's x's and o's go. On the pitching side, every guy he put in imploded. No one was able to do the job. On the offense, they did score runs in a couple of these games that they lost. I believe that they lost 5 games in which they scored 5 or more. The rest of the time it was just Alou and Wright. Look how many men they left on base yesterday. It is hard to hit and run if no one gets on base. The fact that Reyes was terrible really hurt the Mets. I think that was the biggest factor to the collapse. As good as Jimmy Rollins has been in helping the Phillies surge, is as bad as Reyes has been. I think Randolph's hands were tied, what was he supposed to do bench Delgado and Reyes? It just wasn't Willie's fault!