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
We're getting some opportunities and not coming through. When you want something bad enough, you can go out there and try a little too hard. We're just not generating anything right now.
You'd like to think you can stop the bleeding somewhere along the line. We never picked the right guy coming out of the bullpen.
It has been coming down to pitching, and Randy pitched a big game and I thought Moose was terrific.
Very satisfying. Coming back in a place where we haven't been comfortable playing in this year and at this time of year, it shows you what kind of players we have.
It just kept coming back to the same thing: He has a great variety of speeds.
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.
I knew he would embrace it, but you don't know how he's going to be able to do it. He's been situated in one place for so long, and coming off the bench is different than playing every day. He's been doing a little bit of everything here.
I never envisioned this. You can dream about it, you can hope it would happen, but especially coming here from the Red Sox after what he established there, I didn't see that happening.
His batting practice has been better. Again, it's so tough coming in here as late as he did and being thrown into the mix.
We've beat up our umpires. They're now allowed to be human.
You don't know what you're going to get with the start and stop stuff, but he had a good look about him. It was important to get him a big lead where he didn't have to drain himself from pitching in a close game.
When we get to that point, we'll probably know (what to do), ... If we have to make a tough decision, we'll make a tough decision.
When we get to that point, we'll probably know, ... If it's a tough decision, we'll make a tough decision. But I don't know what we're going to do. Mel has written it down all the way to the end of the season, but there are a lot of scratch-outs.
With negotiations, you never know what's going to happen.