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
Knowing the makeup of the individual, knowing the fact that somebody's not afraid to make a mistake and the intelligence, that makes confidence in him easy for me to have.
Knock on wood, everything was fine. He's a little swollen, but everything seems to be in place. That's about as scary as it gets.
Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.
Just the fact that he was able to throw from the mound probably tells us it's not anything serious.
Jorge's struggled all season. I think this was very satisfying for him.
Jorge may DH, I don't know. We have a lot of choices at DH, so it's doubtful that he will because it ties your hands. If we feel he's the best option, we'll bite the bullet and take our chances.
I talked to him this morning. Just after they stretched, I just went over and he was fine.
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.
Who knows where that inning would have gone?
You can feel the bubbles going before you get there but it's always satisfying for me. You still get the attention of the players. To me, that's the best part of what I do, dealing with these players.
You don't even know he's around and when he's around you don't know he's around.
Stepping up is one thing, getting the job done is another.
Spring Training is probably going to make up our mind. We certainly intend to add somebody to our outfield, we just don't know who that person will be yet.
Spring Training is probably going to make up our mind,