Joe Torre Point Quotations

He was really good. I think he's champing at the bit at this point in time.

I think he's chomping at the bit at this point to do more than we're letting him do.

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.

At some point soon, I'll sit down with Bernie and we'll go over everything. I have a great relationship with him, and always have. I've probably talked to him more than any other player here in my tenure. If the first game of the season were today, I'd say he'd be the starting DH. But I also want to give him a lot of time in the corners (left and right field), with the emphasis more on him playing right than left, spelling Sheffield.

You stop managing at that point in time,

Instead of questioning the period, they're going to question the player for the whole time, and I don't think that's fair. Because he was a heck of a player as a skinny kid. He hit a lot of home runs against me. I would walk him intentionally even then, so that kind of respect was earned at that point in time.

If you're a successful team you don't let things that are going on away from the field affect you. You do what you have to do, when you have to do it. At this point in the season, we're going start to start.

All of the reports point to the fact that he's fine, and he's been throwing. Hopefully, it stays that way.