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
Pitchers make adjustments, and it's up to the hitters to readjust and sort of tweak what they do.
My 12 years in New York were very, very special, the fans were very special, and it's something I will take with me wherever I go and into retirement.
I hated the Yankees and Dodgers and wound up managing both.
with the way our pitching has been hurt, it hasn't been a lot of fun. Otherwise, I feel no different at all.
Three games to go and we hold our future in our hands. We couldn't be going in under any better circumstances.
We'd probably like to go to someone else, but Ruben assured me four or five days ago that he could play the field.
We didn't use the word love, but it was pretty warm. It was something more than cordial.
To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it's pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it's still sort of unbelievable to me.
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.
We spoiled (Steinbrenner) by winning four World Series in five years. But it's certainly worth everything that goes with it.
We're in a situation where we can't be thinking about holding our own. We have to make an impact. The only way we can do that is by winning the first game.
We're in good shape. We're playing well, and after last night's ugly one, we came back and did some good things.
We're gritty right now. We're grinding through games an inning at a time.
You don't know what you're going to get with the start and stop stuff, but he had a good look about him. It was important to get him a big lead where he didn't have to drain himself from pitching in a close game.