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
Obviously, if you get to a Game 5 it's very important.
The fact that he's been here this long is pretty incredible.
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 don't know if he's ready or not, ... But he's going to become a very important player one of these days and it is liable to be now.
At a charity event, Bernie sat in with James Taylor and played with him. He's an artist. Bernie doesn't have baseball instincts like a lot of other players. Instincts, you're not born with. He's got to digest and calculate. He works extremely hard.
The most enjoyment I had was doing it in the second inning after the first inning. They came back with two runs, and what looked nice at 5-0 was all of a sudden 5-2. I like the fact that we're swinging the bats, because we haven't done that very well against this club.
A catcher and a left-handed pitcher, ... Those are the no-brainers. The rest of it, we'll figure out.
It's just location, ... His stuff is good and he feels good.
It seems when something needs to happen, he seems to be at the start of it or the end of it.
It's a time of year that they're not used to being competitive. Whether it happened because of that, or the fact that it's just part of getting in shape, I don't know.
It's going to be nuts. It's always nuts when we play the Red Sox. It doesn't matter if it's April or September or October. It's always crazy.
It's fun to win one like this at Yankee Stadium any time, but Opening Day made it special.
It's fun to win a game like this at Yankee Stadium any time. But in the home opener, it's really special. The only way we're going to get momentum is to string some of these together.
It's been an upside down time for him over the last week or so. He's not going to back away from a challenge, he just wasn't as sharp as he could have been.