Ballbug (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Sam Borden / The Journal News : Torre might have made a difference — NEW YORK - Joe Torre wouldn't have made a difference in how this Yankees season has gone, would he? — Would he? — Alex Rodriguez would still have missed 20 games. Hideki Matsui would still have missed 50. Jorge Posada and Chien-Ming Wang would still have been gone even longer.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Ventre: I try not to put much stock in the comparison featuring Manny Ramirez as Samson. And yet, there is Manny, shorn just a bit, looking like less of a hitter. Delilah he’s not, but the Dodgers’ manager Joe Torre is the one who asked Ramirez to comply with team policy and trim his dreadlocks.
Ballbug (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Mike Lupica / NY Daily News : As days wind down, A-Rod must step up — September starts Tuesday for the Yankees. So let's see, starting Tuesday, if Joe Girardi's Yankees can be the same kind of finishers in the American League East that Joe Torre's Yankees always were. — Let's see if the Yankees can hit against a real team …
MLB Rumors by MLBnewsonline.com (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
"Batting: Mark Sweeney Batting Average: .132" - Espn.com Oddly, Sweeney singled (to third...wtf), raising his average to an impressive (by Andruw Jones standards) .143.
http://riveraveblues.com/feed (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Can we start using “to Joe Torre” a pitcher as a verb? Damaso Marte says he’s no longer hurting after a 42-pitch outing on Aug. 4 left him with a sore elbow. Marte, a disappointment so far in his short Yankee career but showing some signs of life lately, was overworked the night the Yanks [...]
The Weblog That Derek Built (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
The Red Sox give up Manny Ramirez (OF) and cash to the Dodgers, get Jason Bay (OF), the Pirates get a refugee raft of prospects. Beyond X, Marte, and Pudge, the good news of the July trade deadline was Manny Ramirez heading off to Joe Torre's Dodgers, and out of the Yankee's lives barring an extremely unlikely World Series confrontation. The Sox had a million reasons to make this trade: Ramirez had...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Normally a center fielder, he plays first base for triple-A Las Vegas to give sore right knee a break. Dodgers Manager Joe Torre doesn't rule out possibility that Jones might play first in the majors. PHILADELPHIA -- Andruw Jones had played 1,835 games in the major leagues and another 324 games in the minor leagues without ever playing first base.
Beerleaguer (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
The hometown nine hosts the team that swept all four games with them last week. The four-game series starts tonight at 7:05 ET. Summary: Greg Maddux (6.9, 3.99), who the Phillies last faced as a member of the Padres, goes for Joe Torre’s club. Kyle Kendrick (10-7, 5.01) tries to get it going following dismal starts in his last two outings. Kendrick has struggled against LA more than any other team...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Opinion: Maybe Joe Torre wasn't the problem after all. Right, Hank Steinbrenner? You didn't think it would be that simple, did you?
The LoHud Yankees Blog (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
It’s strange to look around the clubhouse and see only three Yankees who have won World Series rings with the team: Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte and Mariano Rivera. Joe Torre is gone to California. Jorge Posada is home. Bernie Williams has disappeared. There aren’t even any comebacks left for Roger Clemens. It’s as though Jeter, Andy [...]
LA Times (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Thus, I'll hit some high points and let y'all hear it before the game: Maddux will make his debut on Friday in Philly, which will push Clayton Kershaw to Saturday. Joe Torre, on what Greg Maddux adds to the Dodgers,...
Ballbug (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Wallace Matthews / Newsday : Torre deserves apology from Yankees brass — Last October, the Yankees made Joe Torre an offer he couldn't accept, the chance to be a lame duck in the shooting gallery known as Yankee Stadium. — They came with 6 million bucks in one hand and brass knuckles in the other.
ShysterBall (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Newsday's Wallace Matthews lays into the Yankees for their treatment of Joe Torre last year and notes just how lucky Torre is to be out of New York: Today, Torre's Dodgers sit atop the NL West in a first-place tie with the Arizona Diamondbacks. And in the Bronx, Joe Girardi -- New Joe -- struggles to find a way to keep his $209-million roster alive in August, let alone October. In one sense, it is...
Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
With the Dodgers claiming a share of the NL West lead with Arizona and the New York Yankees gazing upwards at Tampa Bay and Boston respectively, Newsday’s Wallace Matthews concludes, it is clear the Yankees owe Joe Torre an apology, because he wasn’t the problem with this team last year any more than Joe Girardi [...]
Miami Herlad (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Last October, the Yankees made Joe Torre an offer he couldn't accept, the chance to be a lame duck in the shooting gallery known as Yankee Stadium.
