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 understand that there will be certain games when one run will be huge. Even though we're capable of big things here, we have to diversify our attack a little bit.
Tom Gordon, God love him. He has been terrific. He has come in with absolutely no room and has been spectacular.
We're doing this basically because we're trying to be as safe as possible.
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.
You'd like to believe they still want you, ... I knew that they had me whether they wanted me or not, because I had a contract. But I didn't feel, going down - 'Aha, I got you.' I still needed to have what I always needed, and that's the support, to tell me that they trust me.
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.
We're not thinking of either one; we're just thinking about winning every game. We'll win as many games as we can and we'll see what that gets us. That's basically our mentality right now.
We are running out of games. Randy is pitching and we are playing at home. We have to feel it's our game to lose. But nobody is giving it to us. It's hugely important.
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.
Our pitchers are trying to keep the game close, basically.
They've gone into a little downturn. But they're too good a team to stay down.
They stopped thinking and went out there and reacted.
They stopped thinking and just went out there and reacted. With the ability we have, it's just a matter of when it's going to happen. It's just been a strange road trip.
They pitched well last year and they didn't do anything to change my mind this year.