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
The number of years he's pitched so effectively is ridiculous. It's still brand new for him. To me, that's all about what's important. I'm sure he's excited that it's still important. It's not a job for him. It's a profession, but there are other people who rely on him.
It just kept coming back to the same thing: He has a great variety of speeds.
This is the time of year Bernie is used to playing.
They stopped thinking and went out there and reacted.
He's very intelligent, not pretty intelligent. So I think he was poised to make a decision.
I don't know if he was sleeping or not, ... because he never budged.
Ruben, he's probably the most adept at it. He's had the most experience. You know, he loves the pressure and all that. I think he would be the first consideration and then you'd match them up from there.
It's tough to explain. You can mention a lot of things, and I can't discount any of them.
I just wanted to find out if he still trusts me with this team.
I think it will be more comfortable for him. I think that's been from Spring Training all the way through. It's been less hectic than last year.
Safety first, we'll wait to play him Saturday.
He's come up in situations and you say,
You stop managing at that point in time,
I don't remember being this disappointed because I wanted this very badly.