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
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.
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.
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.
They stopped thinking and went out there and reacted.
They stopped thinking and just went out there and reacted. With the ability we have, it's just a matter of when it's going to happen. It's just been a strange road trip.
You stop managing at that point in time,
I thought we had real good quality at-bats tonight and we never stopped going after them. That was important for me.
It gets to the point where they just stopped thinking, went out there and reacted. It was sort of a playful determination that they had out there.
If it rains, that's one thing. Now if it doesn't stop -- then we've got an issue.
I didn't say we had to stop there,
The day I stop expecting good things to happen when he's up in a situation like that is a day that I shouldn't be here. It's surprising when we don't score with the ability we have, but that happens.
The day I stop expecting good things from him in a situation like that is the day I shouldn't be here.
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.