If he didn't get it, he thought for sure he'd at least get a look to be on the staff of whoever would take over for the fired Joe Girardi.
Neither happened. Pedrique, now the A's first base coach, is fine with it.
But was he disappointed at the time?
"Oh, definitely," he said before the Yankees face Oakland at Yankee Stadium on Friday night.
"For a baseball guy, I spent five years with the organization. I knew a lot of these kids. I was hoping for at least a phone call.