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
We're in a pennant race, but the mentality is more of a postseason situation where every game is important enough to win right now, ... We can't be thinking long term.
When you've been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you've played for, the good ones and the bad ones. Even the good ones get fired.
What we need is length out of our starting pitchers. Moose probably needs another start or two before he gets there. El Duque is still developing arm strength. The one thing we've always stressed here during our success is the role of the starting pitchers. That's where it all begins for us.
We didn't use the word love, but it was pretty warm. It was something more than cordial.
We've never been intimidated by the road. We're as set psychologically as we could be.
Luis got a little too aggressive in sending Matsui, especially on the turf where you get the ball quickly. We dodged a bullet.
We're grinding these games out, playing nine innings.
At the time, it didn't look like it was important, but it turned out to be.
There was more public stuff this year than the other years.
Sometimes you don't recognize the voice, ... and you look around and it's Robbie.
I talked to him this morning. Just after they stretched, I just went over and he was fine.
It just seems like he's stepping in a lot of potholes right now.
That's the first thing I thought was, Oh my God! It's just crazy, it really is.
He knows how to pitch. It's good to have him and the Big Unit to carry us, especially when we have a couple of young guys following.