Joe Torre

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• David Wright leaves Team USA with rib injury

  being taken here. I'm obviously disappointed and upset that I can't play, but I completely understand."I had a long talk with Joe Torre about it and I told him I'd like to play, I'd like to try to play. Ultimately, it was taken out of my hands with the Mets   Read more »

• USA (with David Wright) to play Dominican Republic (and Robinson Cano) Thursday

  and by proxy, the Mets and Yankees ."Sometimes I don't think New York realizes how lucky they are," U.S. manager Joe Torre said. "These two guys have lived up to their advance billing."The one common thread here is a mutual respect, and for Wright and Cano,   Read more »

• Mets' Ike Davis ready to fill Mark Teixeira's shoes for Team USA if asked

  went down on Tuesday with a forearm issue, Davis heard from Mets teammate and Team USA third baseman David Wright.Manager Joe Torre had inquired about Davis, Wright relayed via text message. Wright told Davis he offered a good review."He says he did. I didn't   Read more »

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• Sweeny: Yankees Thoughts Heading Into Memorial Day Weekend

  Some thoughts as the Yankees hit Memorial Day weekend, the first big summer marker of the baseball season: – The Yankees enter the weekend 10 games over .500, a mark they actually reached for the first time on May 13. I learned a lot of baseball from Joe   from CBS New York Read more »

• Mark Kiszla: Baseball might not be making right call with instant replay (Guest Column)

  Major League Baseball executive vice president Joe Torre responds to a question during a news conference at MLB headquarters in New York,, May 16, 2013. For more than 100 years, angry baseball fans have been shouting: "Kill the ump!" They might finally g   from The Delaware County Times Read more »

• 15 years ago today: David Wells' perfect game

  David Wells got a hero’s escort from his teammates after retiring all 27 Twins on May 17, 1998. (AP) Overweight and often controversial, David Wells hardly fit anyone’s ideal of perfection, as he himself would later concede with the title of his autobiog   from Sports Illustrated Read more »

• Owners updated on potential expansion of replay

  Joe Torre said that using replay to judge balls and strikes is "off limits" but almost anything else is up for discussion. (AP) NEW YORK -- Joe Torre, Major League Baseball's executive vice president of baseball operations, hadn't originally planned on m   from MLB.com Read more »

• MLB hoping for large replay expansion in 2014

  Commissioner Bud Selig answers a question during a news conference at Major League Baseball headquarters, in New York, Thursday, May 16, 2013. Major League Baseball hopes to expand video review by umpires for the 2014 season and says all calls other than   from Beaumont Enterprise Read more »