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
Matsui, to me not playing, leaves a void in our lineup. When you play every day you get worn down and have to fight your way through things.
He was messed up mechanically. He was flying open. Once he started, he started fighting himself. It's something he's going to have to deal with.
We're running out of games, ... This is our playoffs right now. We need to fight our way into the postseason.
To win the division, where we had to fight from and who we had to beat, I know for me it was very satisfying.
We need to fight our way into the post-season.
I know I alluded to it with my players at one time or another, ... I said, with everything we went through, if it was May or June, you'd have given your right arm to be in the position we are right now. Yeah, we're not in first place, but where we were then, and where we were going, if you knew the last 20 games of the season you're fighting not only for a wild card but for a pennant, you'd be tickled to death.
I've talked to him all year about thinking small, and big things will happen. When you're fighting for a pennant, everybody here will remember that at-bat (on Saturday) rather than a two-run home run when you're up by six runs. I don't think he would have done that last year because he would have been trying to do something bigger.
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.