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 said I thought the umpire was quick on the trigger but I thought you snapped. I also told him I certainly don't want to take that emotion from him. I don't want him out there worried about what he's going to say or do. Hopefully, I'll get to him before it happens again. I never want to take his passion away from him because I think he needs it to pitch.
I said to him, 'I need you today, big guy,' ... He didn't budge.
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.
Opening day is very special. We've waited a long time for this. I left for spring training about two months ago.
Knowing the makeup of the individual, knowing the fact that somebody's not afraid to make a mistake and the intelligence, that makes confidence in him easy for me to have.
Knock on wood, everything was fine. He's a little swollen, but everything seems to be in place. That's about as scary as it gets.
Just win as many games as we can and see where that leaves us when it's over.
Just the fact that he was able to throw from the mound probably tells us it's not anything serious.
Jorge's struggled all season. I think this was very satisfying for him.
Jorge may DH, I don't know. We have a lot of choices at DH, so it's doubtful that he will because it ties your hands. If we feel he's the best option, we'll bite the bullet and take our chances.
I talked to him this morning. Just after they stretched, I just went over and he was fine.
I talked to him again today, and he's on board with that. This time of year, you like to go with as much experience as possible.
It certainly came to my mind, 'Do I want to continue to do this?' ... I had both sides. I had people telling me, 'Don't quit' and others telling me, 'Why don't you quit?'
It gets to the point where they just stopped thinking, went out there and reacted. It was sort of a playful determination that they had out there.