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
Randy was great, we just didn't give him anything to work with.
There's no question it's a matter of concern. But this is not something new with Mo. He's had this before and usually been able to work through it.
When you're down to 20 games left, it's hugely important. Knowing we still have control of things with the last three games against these guys, we just have to work very hard between now and then so those games will be significant.
I think he throws him out if he gets a clean release. That's the play. It just didn't work out.
I think (the steroid issue) works to his advantage if you consider that the player he was and the player he is right now are not that different. If people think he was that player because he was on steroids, well they know that's not the case now.
We have work to do. But, I couldn't ask for more.
That was hugely important. We have no days off the rest of the way. Fortunately, we were able to get Randy a big lead so he didn't have to work through another tough game.
We're ready to go. We don't need to work on anything, or do anything -- everybody's had enough work.
We'll stay with it as long we're comfortable with it and it's productive. We're trying to do things that work immediately.
At a charity event, Bernie sat in with James Taylor and played with him. He's an artist. Bernie doesn't have baseball instincts like a lot of other players. Instincts, you're not born with. He's got to digest and calculate. He works extremely hard.
Pitchers scare me to begin with. I don't know how much work pitchers have done.
His arm is getting the work it needs, but he really didn't get a whole lot of game work. It was a setback, and it will probably add a couple of weeks to his rehab.
That's a play we worked on in spring training,
He's telling me all the work he's doing. Hopefully, that's the case.