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    Re: Joe Torre verlässt die Yankees !!!

    Wombat73 - 19.10.2007, 07:31

    Joe Torre verlässt die Yankees !!!
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    10/18/2007 8:30 PM ET
    Torre declines Yankees' contract offer
    Manager walks away, ending 12-year reign as skipper
    By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com

    Joe Torre led the Yankees to the postseason in each of his 12 seasons with the team. (Getty Images)

    NEW YORK -- Joe Torre's 12-year run with the Yankees ended on Thursday in a Legends Field conference room, as the manager walked and left a contract offer for 2008 on the table.
    In a surprising turn of events, Torre flew to the club's Spring Training home in Tampa, Fla., only to reject a one-year contract offer, effectively closing his successful managerial tenure with the club.

    "We respect Joe Torre an awful lot," said team president Randy Levine. "He is a great, great person and a great Yankee. All we could do together as a group is make him the offer that we thought was the best for the New York Yankees. We respect him and he's entitled to his own decision."

    The offer would have paid Torre a base salary of $5 million, with $1 million bonuses for each level of the postseason the Yankees reached next season, Levine said.

    Those bonuses would have meant that Torre could have earned as much as $8 million in 2008. Levine said that if the Yankees made it to the World Series next season, his contract would have vested for 2009, with a base salary of $8 million.

    Yet Torre -- after 12 consecutive postseason appearances, four World Series titles and 1,173 regular season victories for New York -- was not interested. Torre will address the media in a press conference Friday at 2 p.m. ET in Rye Brook, NY.

    "The decision stands on its own," Levine said. "We all believe as one that this was the best way to go. We obviously wanted Joe Torre to come back; that's why we made him the offer. We respect his decision not to go forward. We thought it was a fair offer."

    Now, the Yankees will have a new face and voice in the dugout for 2008, the final season of the current Yankee Stadium before moving into a new facility across the street. The search to fill an hours-old managerial vacancy will commence immediately.

    "This is a difficult day, because of respect for the work that this man has done," said general manager Brian Cashman, who left Tampa on Wednesday only to return on Thursday with Torre and COO Lonn Trost in tow.

    "At the same time, we're all willing to undertake the challenge ahead of us to find the next man who's best suited to represent this franchise in that dugout. It's an enormous position."

    And it was for Torre, who won six American League pennants and finished as the second-winningest manager in franchise history. By the close of his managerial tenure, Torre was extremely well-compensated for his service, earning $7.5 million for guiding the Yankees to a 94-victory season in 2007.


    ALL-TIME WINNINGEST MANAGERS
    1. Connie Mack 3,731
    2. John McGraw 2,763
    3. Tony La Russa 2,375
    4. Bobby Cox 2,255
    5. Sparky Anderson 2,194
    6. Bucky Harris 2,157
    7. Joe McCarthy 2,125
    8. Joe Torre 2,067
    9. Walter Alston 2,040
    10. Leo Durocher 2,008

    In conversations meant to gauge Torre's state of mind and willingness to return for 2008, volleying back and forth concepts and ideas, Cashman said that Torre brought up the idea of traveling to Tampa in the event there was interest on the Yankees' behalf of bringing him back.

    But Cashman said that he did not believe Torre had made up his mind to reject the Yankees' offer before leaving his Westchester, N.Y., home on Thursday morning, flying to Tampa on his own suggestion for what proved to be a fateful face-to-face meeting with team brass.

    "I don't think he got on that plane knowing either way," Cashman said.

    The Yankees had just concluded two days of organizational meetings in Tampa in which, among other topics, they tackled the issue of who should serve as the club's manager next season.

    Steinbrenner said in an Oct. 6 interview that Torre was not likely to be asked back if the Yankees failed to advance past the first round of the playoffs for the third consecutive season, and the club fell in four games to the Cleveland Indians days later.

    Steinbrenner's son, Hank, defended the Yankee motto in a conference call with reporters from Tampa.

    "The point is, the objective of the Yankees -- since the '20s -- has been to win the championship every year," Hank Steinbrenner said on Thursday. "Just ask what the objective of [Vince] Lombardi was, or [Bill] Belichick with the Patriots. None of us think we're going to win the championship every year, but that's the goal. Period."

    As he addressed the Yankees' playoff exit on Oct. 8, Torre said that he did not want to think about the idea that he may have managed his final game.

    "This has been a great 12 years," Torre said. "Whatever happens from here on out, I'll look back on these 12 years with great, great pleasure."

    In lengthy meetings held on Tuesday at Steinbrenner's gray-brick estate and on Wednesday at Legends Field, though, the Yankees reversed course, agreeing -- unanimously, Levine said -- to offer Torre a deal to remain on.

    Hal Steinbrenner said that he did not believe his father's statements to the Bergen (N.J.) Record had influenced the club's decision to offer a performance-based scale.

    "I cannot speak for George as far as the comments, but as far as I'm concerned, they did not play a part," Hal Steinbrenner said.


    Torre's winning legacy
    Over 12 seasons, Joe Torre managed New York to 12 playoff appearances. His consistent success has him in high standing on the Bombers' all-time managerial wins list.
    Rank Name Years Record
    1 Joe McCarthy 1931-46 1,460-867
    2 Joe Torre 1996-2007 1,173-767
    3 Casey Stengel 1949-60 1,149-696
    4 Miller Huggins 1918-29 1,067-719

    In the conference, according to executives, Torre thanked ownership for the opportunity to manage the club but respectfully declined to stay on.
    "Joe was very respectful," Levine said. "He was the dignified man he's been since all of us have known him. There was no acrimony. We had a very open discussion and he declined the offer."

    Torre was hired by the Yankees following the 1995 season, replacing Buck Showalter. The move initially was not received well in New York, which remembered the Brooklyn-born Torre from when he was manager of losing Mets teams from 1977-81.

    That changed quickly, however, as the 1996 Yankees beat the Atlanta Braves, rebounding from an 0-2 deficit, in the World Series -- their first world championship since 1978. Torre's Yankees went on to win three more World Series over the next four seasons, from 1998-2000.

    But the Yankees had not reached the World Series since falling in the 2003 Fall Classic, and had not advanced to the ALCS since 2004, when they blew a 3-0 lead to the Red Sox.

    As evidenced by their offer on Thursday, the Yankees had expected to continue their pursuit of a 27th World Championship with Torre calling the shots. Instead, it will be someone else's turn.

    "Nobody knows what the future will bring," Levine said. "All we can tell you is that we're going to go to work immediately on trying to find the new manager for the New York Yankees."

    Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

    Die Yankees ohne Joe Torre ... da werden sie nächstes Jahr wohl ganz auf Post Season verzichten müssen ...

    gruß Thorsten



    Re: Joe Torre verlässt die Yankees !!!

    Olaf S. - 19.10.2007, 11:33


    Ich würde den Job ja machen, dann hätten die Orioles mal wieder eine Chance vor den Yankees zu stehen.
    :)



    Re: Joe Torre verlässt die Yankees !!!

    Wombat73 - 02.11.2007, 08:34


    New era dawns with Girardi at helm
    New York's new manager holds court at Yankee Stadium
    By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com

    Joe Girardi is formally introduced as the Yankees' new manager during a press conference at Yankee Stadium on Thursday. (Jeff Zelevansky/MLB.com)

    NEW YORK -- In his first day as a manager at the current Yankee Stadium, the structure he experienced as a player, coach and broadcaster, Joe Girardi was offered a preview of the Yankees' future.
    Inspecting the rising structure of the franchise's new home across the street, Girardi saw concrete being poured, foul poles in place, and walked a pathway leading from the dugout to the clubhouse -- and, of course, the manager's office.

    It is a tomorrow that now includes Girardi, who was formally introduced on Thursday in a press conference at the Stadium Club of the current facility. Two days after agreeing to terms on a three-year contract, Girardi found himself in New York, grinning as he slipped on the pinstripes once more.

    "It's a tremendous time to have this opportunity," Girardi said. "To be a part of the history here, and then to be part of it in the new stadium, it's really neat."

    With that, Girardi became the 32nd manager in club history, and as he posed for photographs, he reiterated his excitement for perhaps the biggest challenge of his multifaceted career.

    "I can't tell you how honored we are to be putting on this uniform for the third time," Girardi said after donning a jersey with the No. 27 on its back -- appropriate, perhaps, since Girardi will be trying to lead the Yankees to their 27th World Series title.

    "This is the place to be. For the Girardis, this place is home."

    Choking back emotion at the podium, Girardi opened his introduction with a story about his father, Gerald, whom he said is suffering from Alzheimer's. Gerald Girardi had not spoken in a month, but that changed when a caretaker showed him a photograph of Girardi as the new Yankees manager.

    "Oh, yeah," the elder Girardi said.

    The 2006 National League Manager of the Year with the Florida Marlins, Girardi beat out internal candidates Don Mattingly and Tony Pena in an interview process that took place last week in Tampa, Fla.

    Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said that the decision was not an easy one, but grouped in a trio of potential candidates, Girardi aced every exam sent his way to emerge as the front-runner.

    "I wanted someone that understood the complexity of the Yankee organization," Cashman said. "We're a very complex situation, whether you're dealing with the media, the New York fan base, the expectations."

    "Whoever hits the ground running, they're not getting caught up to speed and having a learning curve added on," he added. "It wasn't one thing that stands out. There were several things that stood out for me to help me gravitate to Joe Girardi."

    Succeeding Joe Torre after a 12-year run at the helm, Girardi inherits a Yankees club prepared for transition, continuing to filter in younger talent while attempting to win its first World Series championship since 2000.

    Cashman said that the Yankees are expecting Girardi to carve his own dynasty.

    "He's going to be different, because there's only one Joe Torre," Cashman said. "I think Joe Girardi will slowly reveal himself as what he is in the Yankee universe as manager in due time."

    Though Yankees senior vice president Hank Steinbrenner preached during the interview process that observers should have "patience" with the new manager, saying that he would not necessarily be inheriting the 1996 Yankees, Girardi has objected to that viewpoint.

    A key contributor on the 1996 club -- it was his third-inning triple off the Atlanta Braves' Greg Maddux in Game 6 that sent the Yankees to their first World Series title since 1978 -- Girardi said that he expects nothing less than to be playing in the Fall Classic come October.

    Girardi won the Yankees over with a prepared, information-based approach during the intensive interview process. Upon receiving the job, Girardi said he received a message from principal owner George Steinbrenner.

    "He was very congratulatory," Girardi said. "He said, 'It's great to have you aboard.' I said, 'Well, I can't wait for the season to start.'"

    In 2005, Girardi served as Torre's bench coach and catching instructor before receiving his first and only previous managerial opportunity, guiding the Marlins to a 78-victory season and keeping a young club flush with rookies in the Wild Card race until the season's final week.

    "It made me more prepared," Girardi said. "I didn't necessarily ever feel tense. Obviously there are tense situations in games where you have to make tough decisions, but you go with the information with your head. It's thought out. I never thought of it that way."

    A 15-year Major League veteran who also played for the Chicago Cubs (1989-92 and 2000-02), Colorado Rockies (1993-95) and St. Louis Cardinals (2003), Girardi becomes the 17th Yankees manager to have also played for the club.

    A lifetime .267 hitter, Girardi performed on three Yankees World Series championship clubs, winning titles in 1996, '98 and '99. At 43, Girardi becomes the third-youngest manager in the Major Leagues, behind the Washington Nationals' Manny Acta (38) and the Cleveland Indians' Eric Wedge (39).

    "The Joe Girardi that I know is a determined individual," Cashman said. "He's got a big heart -- genuine and sincere. He's decisive in what he wants to do, but yet open to a great deal of information to allow him to be in the best position possible to come together with a plan and execute it.

    "I know the person and obviously I'm betting on this person."

    Girardi is preparing to transition from the broadcast booth to the dugout, having spent the 2007 season as a broadcaster for the YES Network working as an analyst on Yankees broadcasts.

    Girardi said he believes that time spent intimately watching the organization, on the field and off of it, will help him in his new assignment.

    "I was a part of about 35 games watching the Yankees," Girardi said. "I think, as a club, there's always areas you can improve. The New York Yankees have a chance to go to the World Series.

    "They were in a tough playoff with Cleveland, and obviously Cleveland outplayed them during that four-game series. There [are] areas that you have to improve on all over, because you can't be satisfied with where you're at. In my heart, I have feelings of things we have to do."

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    Tja Olaf Pech gehabt ... jetzt musst du wohl bei den Dockers bleiben ... :wink:



    Re: Joe Torre verlässt die Yankees !!!

    Wombat73 - 02.11.2007, 08:36


    It's official: Dodgers hire Torre
    Ex-Yankees skipper brought in to replace Little in LA
    By Ken Gurnick / MLB.com

    LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers made it official on Thursday, hiring future Hall of Fame manager Joe Torre to replace Grady Little, who resigned on Tuesday.
    Why Joe Torre?

    "Why not Joe Torre?" replied general manager Ned Colletti. "Joe Torre comes with a great resume. What he's done the last 12 years is as powerful as any manager in recent memory. Not only the won-loss record, the championships, how his teams have played, his effect on a community the size of New York, the way he embraces the job, the way the players respond to him, the success they have. It's tough to find any cracks in the foundation with that."

    OK, Colletti initially pursued Joe Girardi when he realized that a burned-out Little had doubts about returning for 2008. But when Girardi chose instead to replace Torre with the Yankees, it was no surprise that Colletti, a general manager who treasures the advice of baseball sage Don Zimmer, would wind up hiring the manager that Zimmer is most closely linked.

    Torre, who left the Yankees earlier this month after a run of 12 consecutive years in the playoffs and four World Series titles, agreed to a three-year contract believed to be worth around $13 million. Torre was not on the conference call announcing the hiring and will be introduced at a Dodger Stadium press conference on Monday.

    With a salary higher by multiples than any Dodgers manager in history, Torre will be charged with fulfilling owner Frank McCourt's promise to fans of championship baseball, which the franchise hasn't enjoyed since 1988.

    "Having grown up in Brooklyn, I have a great understanding of the history of the Dodger organization and I am committed to bringing a world championship back to Los Angeles," Torre said in a release. "I consider it an honor to be a part of this organization, which is one of the most storied franchises in all of sports."

    He is expected to bring former Yankees coaches Don Mattingly, Larry Bowa and possibly Lee Mazzilli with him. First-base coach Mariano Duncan and pitching coach Rick Honeycutt, holdovers from Little's staff, might be retained. Colletti said the staff hasn't been finalized, but acknowledged that with Torre's age (67), the ideal situation would be to "groom somebody under Joe's direction, much like Tommy [Lasorda] was under Walter [Alston]. That was a key component to it." Presumably, that somebody is Mattingly, although Colletti said such a decision was premature.

    Meanwhile, at a time when the Los Angeles sports scene is hungry for a superstar, Torre provides the Dodgers instant credibility that could facilitate the recruitment of better players, such as free agent and former Yankee Alex Rodriguez, who could fill holes at third base and in the middle of a power-starved batting order.

    "We'll meet as a group and discuss not only Alex Rodriguez, but everybody out there who's a free agent as well as different trade scenarios we've got," said Colletti, who leaves next week for the General Manager Meetings.

    Colletti said in the last week he met with Torre face to face, as did club owners Frank and Jamie McCourt. If Dodgers management had concerns whether the 67-year-old Torre had enough left in the tank after his departure from the Yankees (rejecting a one-year deal for $5 million plus incentives), Torre put them to rest.

    "From the very get-go I looked at him and said, 'Do you really want to get back into something this?' and he looked back at me and said, 'There's no doubt in my mind what I want to do and where I want to do it,'" said Colletti. "He likes the challenge, the chance to take a club that hasn't been to the World Series since 1988 and to do something about that. I don't have any doubt about his appetite. He's up for the challenge He left me no doubt."

    Colletti said he was not concerned about Torre returning to the fast pace of National League managing or his coming from a veteran club like the Yankees to a Dodgers team in the midst of a youth movement, citing Torre's early years in New York when Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Bernie Williams were part of a youth movement.

    "He's managed young players before, no doubt he can and he has," he said. "He gave me no indication he has any concerns about the type of club this is currently, knowing it has not reached its full potential."

    Colletti said Torre will have the same input in player personnel matters that Little had, something Torre apparently did not have in his final years with the Yankees. Little often said that Colletti consulted him on all player moves.

    "No player decision will be made without me talking and discussing [it] with the manager," Colletti said. "I did it with Grady every step of the way and I'll do it with Joe."

    Torre inherits an imperfect roster coming off a fourth-place finish and a clubhouse divided. Little was assessed much of the blame for the split between young and old players. While that situation could heal itself to a certain extent as some of the unhappy veterans have already declared for free agency, Torre has enjoyed widespread respect from his players over the years and Dodgers officials are confident his presence will preclude a repeat of last year's turmoil.

    "He gets the most out of players and has them understand the value of the team and not the individual," said Colletti. "The manager has a lot to do with keeping that in tune. When you have the resume and you see how he's done it, with almost a calmness he's able to do it in difficult situations, the success, the response of the players and the comments you read, you know you're getting a quality human being and somebody that's there a tremendous amount of respect for.

    "The success he's had, coupled with the demeanor he carries and the ability to relate to all of the players. You can tell the mind-set of a team by how it plays and a few years ago when the Yankees took the field to stretch, there was a certain air and professionalism that said, we're the Yankees. That starts with the manager and the players have to believe in it. It's the way players respond to him and the success and who he is."

    Torre has managed 27 years for four Major League teams, the last dozen years with the Yankees. He didn't reach the World Series until he managed the Yankees and won four world championships there, but none since 2000. The Yankees finished second in the AL East in 2007 for the first time since 1997.

    Torre was Manager of the Year in 1996 and 1998. He previously managed the Braves, Mets and Cardinals. His overall winning percentage is .539, but his win percentage excluding the Yankees years was .470 and those teams finished first once in 15 seasons.

    Following Jim Tracy and Little, Torre will be the third manager for the Dodgers since McCourt purchased the club less than four years ago. He's the Dodgers' sixth manager in the last 10 years (Bill Russell, Glenn Hoffman and Davey Johnson are the others), eighth since the club came to Los Angeles and 26th in franchise history.

    As a player, Torre was a nine-time All-Star, former Rawlings Gold Glove Award winner (1965) and National League Most Valuable Player (1971). He hit .297 with 252 career home runs and 1,185 RBIs in 2,209 games as a catcher, third baseman and first baseman for the Braves, Cardinals and Mets. His 1971 MVP campaign included a career-high .363 batting average, 230 hits, 137 RBIs and 352 total bases.

    "Joe Torre is one of the most respected men in the game of baseball," said Frank McCourt in a release. "As a player, a broadcaster, a manager and in his life off the field, Joe is a winner through and through. As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Dodgers moving to Los Angeles, we will again have a Hall of Fame caliber manager at the helm. Joe's dedication, desire and ability will help lead the Dodgers to our ultimate goal -- a world championship."


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