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
I don't dislike Lou because people ask me about him hovering over there, ... If George wants Lou, or anybody else to manage, that's certainly his prerogative. The fact that he's available, it's never really bothered me.
Scott Boras, I've known for a long time. We were both in the Cardinals organization. I'm a lot older than Scott. He's a very tough man, very tough agent.
They are both the same type of pitcher, where they really base their success on feel.
This is a very proud moment for him. I'm very pleased with the year he had. He's getting more comfortable here in New York. Alex helped us win so many games, both offensively and defensively, and he continues to improve.
It certainly came to my mind, 'Do I want to continue to do this?' ... I had both sides. I had people telling me, 'Don't quit' and others telling me, 'Why don't you quit?'
That bothers me, but I don't think about it. We go there every year. If every time you walk in, that's what comes to mind, that's too many sad times.
I had finished dinner and was very comfortable, so I said, 'Fine,' ... From the scores of both games, I wouldn't have been comfortable watching them.
It's ready-get set-go time of year. We've got to come ready to play every day on both sides of the ball, and I couldn't be more pleased by what I'm seeing.
I like the way that we've come into both these games. We've been aggressive early, getting scoring position, constantly giving ourselves chances to get runs on the board. So I feel good about our club right now.
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.
We just want to get home, ... Not many guys have had their families with them the entire time and we want to get back.
When a guy like that goes out there you feel you have the edge.
We had them on the ropes early and couldn't put them away. That's our fault.
We certainly need him in the lineup, whichever way he's better for us. Whichever way is easier for him, that's the way we'll have to go.