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 have confidence in our abilities. Now it's just up to us to play well.
I think this has helped our confidence in terms of scoring runs.
He comes with a lot of confidence and yet a lot of awareness on what needs to be done. He's going to emerge as one of the leaders to go along with the others we have in the lineup, because he's taken to being in New York with great ease.
Knowing the makeup of the individual, knowing the fact that somebody's not afraid to make a mistake and the intelligence, that makes confidence in him easy for me to have.
It's not an easy decision, obviously. But Heredia shouldn't be on the mound for me if I don't have confidence to do something like that. It's not an easy decision to make, but it was one I felt I had to and then just live with the results.
The only thing you hope doesn't happen is that we start and then stop. That would be a hardship we'd have to deal with.
The playoffs have been going on for us for awhile.
I don't remember being this disappointed because I wanted this very badly.
We understand that there will be certain games when one run will be huge. Even though we're capable of big things here, we have to diversify our attack a little bit.
This team has been pretty good about not carrying any baggage with it.
We just felt that Jason probably needed the most rest of all the guys.
We just feel that Embree may have a little more velocity.
You just accept whatever comes down, because if you start getting lost there, you're going to wind up getting distracted and using it as an excuse, and this is no time for excuses.
to hear that they want me to do what I do.