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
The thing that made tonight was how patient we were early. I thought we had real good, quality at-bats and we never stopped coming at them.
The thing I feel good about is, if something bad happens, they just keep moving past it.
Sometimes you don't recognize the voice, ... and you look around and it's Robbie.
So much of baseball is about history and the records. The fans want the records to mean something. If somebody like Alex had the most home runs, there wouldn't be any questions.
Sometimes these things get away from you, and you can't do a whole lot about it.
Scoring 10 runs in one game doesn't give you a five-run lead the next day.
Ruben, he's probably the most adept at it. He's had the most experience. You know, he loves the pressure and all that. I think he would be the first consideration and then you'd match them up from there.
Ruben has had some numbers against Lackey, but we had to weigh all of the information. We decided that the defensive part of it carried it.
Every game is vital. These are our playoffs now.
At some point soon, I'll sit down with Bernie and we'll go over everything. I have a great relationship with him, and always have. I've probably talked to him more than any other player here in my tenure. If the first game of the season were today, I'd say he'd be the starting DH. But I also want to give him a lot of time in the corners (left and right field), with the emphasis more on him playing right than left, spelling Sheffield.
At 7-1, your pitching has obviously controlled that other team. At 16-10, I'm not sure when it's safe.
At the time, it didn't look like it was important, but it turned out to be.
Don't even think that. Everybody should have your heart.
Very satisfying. Coming back in a place where we haven't been comfortable playing in this year and at this time of year, it shows you what kind of players we have.