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
If we win this game, ... regardless of what anybody else does, we're home for the first round and, in all likelihood, will be with the Angels, and that's going coast to coast, so we have a stake in this thing, too.
If that happened in the postseason, ... it'd be on Page 1 of every paper.
If it rains, that's one thing. Now if it doesn't stop -- then we've got an issue.
He wins 10 games and give you the final score, too, ... How much better can it get?
He's cool. He's having a good time. He just really told people a lot more with this last start than we learned since he came over from Colorado. Obviously, we needed every bit of it. Now we can reunite with Moose again because we haven't seen him in about five days.
He's come up in situations and you say,
He's chomping at the bit to do more than we're letting him do.
He has a great deal of talent and makes a lot of money. I think there's a lot of jealousy out there.
The pressure was totally on Chacon and he handled it really well.
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.
What we need is length out of our starting pitchers. Moose probably needs another start or two before he gets there. El Duque is still developing arm strength. The one thing we've always stressed here during our success is the role of the starting pitchers. That's where it all begins for us.
We're gritty right now. We're grinding through games an inning at a time.
We're grinding these games out, playing nine innings.