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Mets Fire Randolph, Peterson

Posted on: June 17, 2008 9:20 am
Edited on: June 17, 2008 9:39 am
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News came over the wire early this morning that the Mets have fired manager Willie Randolph, pitching coach Rick Peterson, and first base coach Tom Nieto.  Jerry Manuel becomes the interim manager.

I've mentioned before - manager news isn't really within the scope of this website.  But, I figure it's easier to toss up an item here rather than explain that to well-intentioned emailers all day.

The Mets are 34-35, 6.5 games out of the NL East with about 57% of the season left to go.  Baseball Prospectus puts their playoff odds somewhere between 7-19%.

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MetsFanSince86
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Since: Nov 30, 2007
Posted on: June 17, 2008 2:42 pm
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Mets Fire Randolph, Peterson

The Mets timing on this sucks. They should have fired him on the last west coast trip after the Padres swept all 4 games or even way before that when the Braves swept them in 4. This was inevitable though the Wilpons wanted him gone after last years collapse. They finally got what they wanted now maybe the players can focus on the game and the press will finally talk about something else.



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