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
with the way our pitching has been hurt, it hasn't been a lot of fun. Otherwise, I feel no different at all.
Who knows where that inning would have gone?
You can feel the bubbles going before you get there but it's always satisfying for me. You still get the attention of the players. To me, that's the best part of what I do, dealing with these players.
You don't even know he's around and when he's around you don't know he's around.
Three games to go and we hold our future in our hands. We couldn't be going in under any better circumstances.
To win the division, where we had to fight from and who we had to beat, I know for me it was very satisfying.
You know we're capable. It's always talking about the thumpers and all of the big things we can do.
We needed him to fill a spot for us, and he did, but he's given us much more than we could have anticipated.
We need to fight our way into the post-season.
We need him to be a horse for us.
We haven't accomplished anything yet, ... other than playing tough games every night, which I'm not sure is going to be good for my health.
We have work to do. But, I couldn't ask for more.
I think this has helped our confidence in terms of scoring runs.
I think there's going to be a lot of people interested. Even going back to Houston, going back in May, I don't think is going to be any big deal for him. It'll probably benefit him, the fact that he won't have to pitch the whole time.