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
Mike is very responsible, I think you all know that, so I'm not really concerned about the fact that he'll be ready to pitch.
My feeling is that once he starts, he'll come quickly. We'll let the people down there who are watching him make the determination of when he's ready for competition at this level.
My guess is, if he was ready he would have been the name they gave me, and it wasn't.
We're fine. We're ready to go. Everybody's had enough work.
We're ready to go. We're as ready as we're going to be.
We're ready to go. We don't need to work on anything, or do anything -- everybody's had enough work.
We're not trying to rush him to get ready for any particular date. But compare this year to last year and it's night and day for him.
We don't know if he's ready or not, ... But he's going to become a very important player one of these days and it is liable to be now.
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.
If I used him as a pinch-hitter, I could probably get away with it because I could pinch-run for him, ... But we want him to be ready to be a D.H.
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.