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
That's what the game is all about. We have 25 guys, 11 pitchers, and we need everybody to contribute.
That's going to take a lot of thought, I guess is the best word, ... Only because you certainly don't want to do anything physically that's going to hurt him. I won't know if he's available. But if he is, as the game flows, if you're sitting down there with me, you're going to have the same thoughts I am. You're going to see where you are, see what's happening, and certain people just come into your mind as far as doing things.
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.
Safety first, we'll wait to play him Saturday.
Right now we're just digesting all the information and hoping that everybody gets through all these games without a problem. We'll wait as long as we can.
Right now, we're just digesting all the information and hoping everyone gets through all these games without a problem. Chacon seems as relaxed as I've ever seen anybody I've ever seen in Spring Training.
Right now, we are just having trouble putting runs on the board. We can't string together some hits right now, but it's early in the season.