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
He's excited. He's not one to act excited but you can tell.
How come certain guys come to New York and have trouble handling this, that and the other thing? Well, these guys came with no expectations, let's admit it. There wasn't anybody holding their breath to see what they were going to do and they had a chance, I think, to pitch as opposed to try and talk about it.
He's real people, the way he plays the game. I think it's important to do whatever we can just to let a player know what's going on.
He's really responded about like Jeter did 10 years ago. When Derek would make an error or make a play on the base paths which wasn't the right play, it never really affected him ... It looked like a breaking ball away from him and he went out and got it and was able to rake it over the fence. That was huge.
He's really enjoying himself, ... especially if you go back 12 months and where he was a year ago. He's worked hard. It's not something that just dropped on his doorstep. It's something he's had to work through mentally and physically.
I don't really know the nature of it. The fact that he hit, that's a good sign for us. Hopefully it's just something that's connected with Spring Training.
I don't know if he was sleeping or not, ... because he never budged.
I don't know if it's nonchalance as maybe not paying attention as much as he should.
I didn't expect Ruben to get that close to that ball.
I didn't know if we were going to get one or two. I felt they were able to at least knock it down, but both of them were off their feet.
I didn't know what to expect going in. But nothing gets by these fans. Bernie didn't know whether to take a bow (in the eighth inning). He looked over at me and I gave him a nod.
I didn't say we had to stop there,
Chacon and Small filled some gaps for us, ... And they didn't only fill them, they did some quality stuff. We've been very lucky with that.
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