Joe Torre

John Shea On Baseball / Yankees dig deep to keep pace with Rays

The Yankees are engaging in a monumental quest that had never been considered in all their years as baseball's baddest boys from the Bronx. The Babe, Iron Horse and Joltin' Joe never imagined this far-out mission. Neither did...

MLB INSIDER: Mets getting closer to bringing in Jenks?

Bobby Jenks doesn't carry the albatross of a long-term contract around his neck and he's coming off a strong 2008 season. So when you're looking at the White Sox through the prism of our New York teams, don't make too many...

Getting to roots of Mariners manager hopefuls

Each Mariners candidate would be new to the job in the majors, but his style can be traced to those he worked for. By Larry Stone Seattle Times staff reporter About 650 men have held managing jobs in the major leagues in the...

Mattingly Cuts Coaching Role To Spend More Time at Home

Don Mattingly, who followed Joe Torre west to work for the Los Angeles Dodgers this season, has told the Dodgers that he cannot be their batting coach after all. Mattingly has decided to spend more time with his wife and his...

Top fillies to train in state

Two big girls are spending the winter in Southern California but two big boys are going, going and, for Kentucky Derby trail purposes, gone. Zenyatta and Stardom Bound, the ladies-in-waiting for locked-up Older Filly/Mare and...

Big Unit intriguing for Dodgers

But GM Colletti has not yet made offer to veteran Johnson Casey Blake's agent said the third baseman "wouldn't have any hesitation" returning to L.A. (AP) LOS ANGELES -- While veteran free-agent starting pitchers like Randy...

Let's crank up the Hot Stove

When the clock struck midnight on Friday morning, Major League Baseball teams were officially able to start talking financial numbers with free agents from other teams.With that, the craziness that is the MLB Hot Stove...

Gardenhire gets 2-year extension from Twins

"It's a very young and exciting team and, if we can fill in a couple of holes, we believe we are going to be right there with this team and win a World Series," Gardenhire said Thursday in a statement issued by the club after...

Twins: Gardenhire, staff all in place

The Twins manager and his coaches all got two-year deals, a reward for the team's near first-place finish in the AL Central in '08. With baseball's free-agent market about to open, the Twins announced Thursday that they had...

Sandberg could ignite M’s dugout

JOHN MCGRATH; THE NEWS TRIBUNE Published: November 14th, 2008 12:05 AM Winding up his preliminary work in search of a skipper, Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik called the seven candidates he interviewed this week “an...

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