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
You stop managing at that point in time,
You're getting a chance to look at these kids with the number of at-bats they're getting early in the game compared to what they would be getting if you had your whole team healthy and here. It's a little bit different, but you're getting to find out a little bit more than normal.
You're excited to play Opening Day, and you know that we're capable of doing all the things we saw tonight. It was great just to see it happen.
You never really know until you get in a situation like this how somebody is going to handle it. We couldn't be more pleased, and he had to be proud of himself.
You mean how much money he's made me? How could you not? But I don't think in terms of who's in waiting because he's been here and he's been the same the whole time.
It was all about getting to it more so than anything else. ... You'd like to be able to tighten up defense everywhere, but you can only do so much.
The Tampa situation is difficult. Probably the thing that caused all of it was the fact that we were losing.
Randy was great, we just didn't give him anything to work with.
Randy was fine. He had an easy night getting there because he had the big lead.
Randy was excellent. The last two times out he's been lighting it up.
Randy's more into challenging himself than something else has to stimulate him.
Randy, right from the first pitch he threw, was very dominant, very dominant and very animated. We didn't give him a whole lot of breathing room, either.
Probably three or four days, that would be my guess. The good news is that he didn't tear it.
If we had tied it last night, I would have brought him in for the ninth inning, even though that's something I don't like to do. The need to get him in a game is important.