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 think it will be more comfortable for him. I think that's been from Spring Training all the way through. It's been less hectic than last year.
To wind up in Cooperstown is surreal for me. To go into the Hall of Fame is one thing. When you think of all the other Yankees that are in here, it's pretty special. This is just a shrine. To visit it, much less be inducted, it's still sort of unbelievable to me.
I have a feeling I'm going to make all the phone calls. I'm not going to hesitate doing that, because I learned my lesson last year. I don't call him because I need to get support; I just think it's important to stay up to date.
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.
We're fine. We're ready to go. Everybody's had enough work.
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.
We're flat right now. We're just not generating anything.
We're hoping he's healthy. That's No.1, first and foremost. All the reports that we've had is that he's been on a regular routine throwing ? not throwing off the mound, but everything seems to be good. He's a big horse for us. When he was a free agent last year he was at the top of my list. We were fortunate enough to be able to sign him. He just never was right. Mel can tell you, from spring training on he just didn't feel right. It was just something that nagged him all year. Finally we shut him down. Hopefully that stuff is behind him.
When he goes to the mound and says something to a pitcher, he's speaking from experience. He's telling the pitcher what he's supposed to feel like, because he's been out there in key situations. He has the ability to get that across.
We're in good shape. We're playing well, and after last night's ugly one, we came back and did some good things.