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
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.
He's not overpowering, so he needs to locate a lot better than he did last night and than he's done lately, ... But you know he's not going to wilt from the pressure, which is a plus. He just needs to be a little more consistent.
It was a decision I felt I had to make. Certainly, it wasn't popular, and the last thing I wanted to do was go get him. He left a couple pitches up . . .
If we had tied it last night, I would have brought him in for the ninth inning, even though that's something I don't like to do. The need to get him in a game is important.
But we understand what they did to us last time.
That lacked respect last night. Winning and losing had nothing to do with it. I just thought it was time to acknowledge what he's done here.
I've talked to him all year about thinking small, and big things will happen. When you're fighting for a pennant, everybody here will remember that at-bat (on Saturday) rather than a two-run home run when you're up by six runs. I don't think he would have done that last year because he would have been trying to do something bigger.
I haven't taken his pulse lately; it barely moves. But he pitched well for us last year, and sometimes a little bit of a language barrier is an advantage. You're not having to answer a lot of questions and converse with a lot of people. It sort of insulates you. I have no doubt he'll be able to handle it.
I guess it was fitting; it was incredible. After last night's exhausting game, to play as well defensively as we did today was hugely important.
Randy was excellent. The last two times out he's been lighting it up.
I saw a draft of this year's schedule halfway through last year, and you had to see this series right away. The schedule might have been preliminary. But I knew this series wasn't.
The last two days now we've scored runs. We're gritty right now, and that's certainly important.
I've talked to Bernie and I think he's comfortable with it. Emotionally, he is fine with it. It is just that the last day of July was the day it had to be done. It was in his contract.
Things like that happen. That's why baseball is so unpredictable. You don't play it by the clock. You can't freeze the ball. You have to get every single out, and every single one of those outs, especially the last five or six, are very tough to get.