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
Small we knew from Spring Training, but Chacon, I didn't even know the name, ... To get him here and see how consistent he's been in key situations, it's been great.
That's a play we worked on in spring training,
The fans get cheated. But we have to take care of our own.
I just wanted to pretty much clear the air on everything that was part of my unhappiness or anger or whatever you want to call it, frustration. I guess you can put all those things under the same heading, ... I just wanted to pretty much, for my own satisfaction, to find out if he still trusts me with his team.
I just wanted to find out if he still trusts me with this team.
I know I alluded to it with my players at one time or another, ... I said, with everything we went through, if it was May or June, you'd have given your right arm to be in the position we are right now. Yeah, we're not in first place, but where we were then, and where we were going, if you knew the last 20 games of the season you're fighting not only for a wild card but for a pennant, you'd be tickled to death.
I just like the way we feel right now.
I have to find out how he came out of this. It's good that he's doing all of his conditioning. Hopefully it's a thing of the past.
I haven't taken his pulse lately; it barely moves. But he pitched well for us last year, and sometimes a little bit of a language barrier is an advantage. You're not having to answer a lot of questions and converse with a lot of people. It sort of insulates you. I have no doubt he'll be able to handle it.
I have no hesitation at all about trying to continue to score runs there.
I'm very pleased where everyone's at right now.
I never envisioned this. You can dream about it, you can hope it would happen, but especially coming here from the Red Sox after what he established there, I didn't see that happening.
I'm not sure what is the bigger surprise, the fact that he's pitching again or the fact he went down in the first place.
I'm not the least bit concerned. I'm not pleased that we lost four of the first five games, but it doesn't make me sit back and say, 'What can I do?' or 'What should I have done?' This is the game of baseball.