Joe Torre
Joe Torre
Joseph Paul "Joe" Torreis an American professional baseball executive, serving in the capacity of Major League Baseball'schief baseball officer since 2011. A former player, manager and television color commentator, Torre ranks fifth all-time in MLB history with 2,326 wins as a manager. With 2,342 hits during his playing career, Torre is the only major leaguer to achieve both 2,000 hits and 2,000 wins as a manager. From 1996 to 2007, he was the manager of the New York Yankees, whom...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth18 July 1940
CountryUnited States of America
It's sad, it really is. Doc's obviously had some problems through the years and it's a shame for what he's gone through.
This is a very proud moment for him. I'm very pleased with the year he had. He's getting more comfortable here in New York. Alex helped us win so many games, both offensively and defensively, and he continues to improve.
Bubba, with his younger legs, ... covers more ground.
I want him to be, ... I'll leave it at that.
He's telling me all the work he's doing. Hopefully, that's the case.
At some point soon, I'll sit down with Bernie and we'll go over everything. I have a great relationship with him, and always have. I've probably talked to him more than any other player here in my tenure. If the first game of the season were today, I'd say he'd be the starting DH. But I also want to give him a lot of time in the corners (left and right field), with the emphasis more on him playing right than left, spelling Sheffield.
He's got a microphone in front of his face all the time. Do I like the remarks? No. But I'm not going to worry about getting on the phone every time someone says something.
You can't expect to win when you give them extra outs. You hope when you make errors they won't come up and bite you.
I'd like to see him play in the bullpen so he wouldn't be on the field,
He didn't warn him, which is the only contention I have,
You want to separate the left-handers or not? I don't know. I have not thought about it.
It looked like Randy was saying, 'Yeah, changing of the guard, but I'm not done yet.
He cares. I'm not saying Barry doesn't care. But (Giambi) tried to keep an upbeat attitude, and it's not easy to do. He's been as open as he could be.
I talked to him again today, and he's on board with that. This time of year, you like to go with as much experience as possible.