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'll stay with it as long we're comfortable with it and it's productive. We're trying to do things that work immediately.
We have confidence in our abilities. Now it's just up to us to play well.
The only thing you hope doesn't happen is that we start and then stop. That would be a hardship we'd have to deal with.
Three games to go and we hold our future in our hands. We couldn't be going in under any better circumstances.
To win the division, where we had to fight from and who we had to beat, I know for me it was very satisfying.
You know we're capable. It's always talking about the thumpers and all of the big things we can do.
We needed him to fill a spot for us, and he did, but he's given us much more than we could have anticipated.
We need to fight our way into the post-season.
We need him to be a horse for us.
We have to improve our bullpen somewhat and find someone to play center field. Teams have to change all the time to try to stay up with things and try to improve.
with the way our pitching has been hurt, it hasn't been a lot of fun. Otherwise, I feel no different at all.
We have work to do. But, I couldn't ask for more.
You'd like to think you can stop the bleeding somewhere along the line. We never picked the right guy coming out of the bullpen.
We're not trying to rush him to get ready for any particular date. But compare this year to last year and it's night and day for him.