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
Walk a guy who knocked in 150 runs versus a guy who knocked in 140 runs. You can make that decision.
We're running out of games, ... This is our playoffs right now. We need to fight our way into the postseason.
When he goes to the mound and says something to a pitcher, he's speaking from experience. He's telling the pitcher what he's supposed to feel like, because he's been out there in key situations. He has the ability to get that across.
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 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 a pennant race, but the mentality is more of a postseason situation where every game is important enough to win right now, ... We can't be thinking long term.
We spoiled (Steinbrenner) by winning four World Series in five years. But it's certainly worth everything that goes with it.
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.
When you start talking about right-handed hitters for the Yankees who hit 40 home runs, there are only two of them. That's hard to believe, and the other guy is named DiMaggio. You know he's special.
We're ready to go. We're as ready as we're going to be.
We're ready to go. We don't need to work on anything, or do anything -- everybody's had enough work.
With the players we have there are always going to be high expectations. Maybe we can chalk up the slow start into them thinking everything would be OK.
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.