Randolph: ‘Not the Way I Would Have Handled It’
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Willie Randolph figured the Mets would fire someone. He just didn’t think general manager Omar Minaya would pick him.
“I thought he was talking about whacking a couple of my coaches,” the ex-manager told several New York-area newspapers yesterday outside his home in Franklin Lakes, N.J.
“That’s why I was stunned. I didn’t think it was going to happen,” Randolph said. “At the time, I felt the way he was talking to me, that I was pretty secure for the time being.”
Minaya fired Randolph, pitching coach Rick Peterson and first base coach Tom Nieto after Monday night’s win over the Los Angeles Angels.
“Not the way I would have handled it,” he said. “Bottom line, it is what it is.”
