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
When you're down to 20 games left, it's hugely important. Knowing we still have control of things with the last three games against these guys, we just have to work very hard between now and then so those games will be significant.
When you're down to 20 games left, it's hugely important,
We had to weigh all the information, ... but we decided the defensive part of it carries the most weight, so we were sort of leaning that way.
We have a lot of information to digest.
We have to make sure he's pitching regularly. How far he goes isn't as important as how often he goes. However long it takes, in between, he'll be working toward keeping his condition where it is right now, because he's in good shape.
We have to improve our bullpen somewhat and find someone to play center field. Teams have to change all the time to try to stay up with things and try to improve.
That was ugly. We just gave too much away. It's one thing to have a team beat you, but it's another to help them.
That was back when just getting to the World Series was enough.
That's what goes with who you are, how much you make, all of that. It's part of the equation, unfortunately, so you just have to deal with it.
That's very important. If you expect to win and go places, you have to do things like that.
That stuff is over and done with. They played very well against us and they played very well against other teams, too.
Who knows where that inning would have gone?
I think Posada really was a key figure for us tonight in a lot of ways,
I think, ... I feel pretty good about where we are.