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
When you're in a slump, you do something different, just to try it. I remember one time I was in a slump, and I borrowed one of Henry Aaron's bats and hit two homers. I used my own bats the next night. I just needed a change.
I felt there was a lot of love in my house. And my mom was, you know, the basis of all that.
The only thing I wanted him to do was have a plan, ... To me, being in between is worse than being wrong, because when you're in between, you're never right. So that was basically the conversation.
We know he has ability, but he's inexperienced. So I thought losing Colon was a bad break for them and a good one for us. Mike trusted him right down to the seventh inning, and unfortunately, we couldn't cash in on some of the opportunities we had.
We know he just lives for this type of situation. You have to be born with that need to compete.
With the players we have there are always going to be high expectations. Maybe we can chalk up the slow start into them thinking everything would be OK.
We're ready to go. We don't need to work on anything, or do anything -- everybody's had enough work.
We're ready to go. We're as ready as we're going to be.
Walk a guy who knocked in 150 runs versus a guy who knocked in 140 runs. You can make that decision.
We have confidence in our abilities. Now it's just up to us to play well.
The pressure was totally on Chacon and he handled it really well.
We've never been intimidated by the road. We're as set psychologically as we could be.
When he goes to the mound and says something to a pitcher, he's speaking from experience. He's telling the pitcher what he's supposed to feel like, because he's been out there in key situations. He has the ability to get that across.
We'll stay with it as long we're comfortable with it and it's productive. We're trying to do things that work immediately.