Willie Getting Looks From Nats?

Former Mets manager Willie Randolph is apparently getting looks from the Mets rivals the Washington Nationals. Randolph would not be hired as a manger but as a coach but a coach on manager Manny Acta's coaching staff.

The Sporting News quoted Randolph as follows;

"They've reached out to say, "we're interested." This is just the early stages."

Randolph would most likely rather be a manager than a bench coach. Acta was once Randolph's third base coach with the Mets. Teams interested in the former Mets skipper are the Nationals, Brewers and possibly the Mariners.

I think that Randolph should manage again, just not for the Mets. I can see him as the Yankees manager possibly in a few years. My one pet peeve with Randolph was that he tried to make the Mets the Yankees of the National League. Coming over from a bench coach position under Joe Torre, he brought over many philosophies that the Yankees used. Like no facial hair and no music in the clubhouse. The Mets are not the Yankees and they never will be.

When Jerry took over, he lifted some of Willie's rules immediately but still held the clubhouse together. He loosed up the previously tight and strict Randolph clubhouse.

Other than that I really liked Willie, he brought a winning atmosphere to Flushing, and I credit him with that.