JOE TORRE TO THE DODGERS!

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Jul 8, 2007
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yahoo.com said:
The Los Angeles Dodgers are planning on firing manager Grady Little and replacing him with former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre, according to multiple reports.

Citing sources, the Journal-News of Westchester, New York said the announcement of Torre's hiring could come as early as Tuesday.

The New York Times, quoting two major league officials who requested anonymity, also reported Torre's imminent hiring but did not give a timetable.

Torre has been on the market since turning down a one-year offer to remain as manager of the Yankees on October 18. He had been with the Yankees for 12 seasons, winning four World Series championships and leading the team to the playoffs every season he was in charge in the Bronx.

Torre, 67, owns a .539 (2067-1770) winning percentage over 26 seasons in the majors that have also included stops with the New York Mets, Atlanta Braves and the St. Louis Cardinals.

Along with the possible hire of Torre, it is being reported that his bench coach, Don Mattingly, may be joining him in the same role that he manned for one season with the Yankees after spending three seasons as their hitting coach.

Mattingly was one of the three finalists for the vacancy created by the departure of Torre last week before the Yankees offered the job to former Marlins manager Joe Girardi on Monday. It had been reported earlier in the day that Mattingly would not accept a position on the new Yankees coaching staff.

Interestingly, a move to Los Angeles would reunite Mattingly with the organization that drafted his son, Preston, in the first round of the 2006 major league draft.

Little, who has led the Dodgers to winning seasons in each of his two seasons at the helm, led Los Angeles to a disappointing 82-80 finish last season, eight games behind the eventual National League West Division champion Arizona Diamondbacks.

Despite never enduring a losing season in four seasons with the Dodgers and Boston Red Sox and compiling a .552 winning percentage (358-290), Little will have lasted just two seasons with each team.
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Must not be too much of a sorry ass coach if one of if not the best in the majors doesn't want to return to the team if he's not going to be managing.....send a-rod over to the dodgers
 
Mar 24, 2006
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but in LA Torre wont have the nowhere near as much pressure on him as he did in NY, Dodgers could use a couple upgrades in the lineup though...
 
Jun 15, 2005
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We can clown all we want on th eDodgers becuase they did fucking nothing last year, BUT...

...they have shown that they will pony up and buy good free agents. If you think they're gonna hire Torre and that's it, then you don't know big franchise baseball.

My cheap ass Padre front office would never do the same, that's why were left to hope for our "scrappy" ball club to even make the playoffs. Our best pitcher (Jake Peavy) will most like be pitching for another ball club after next season - WHY? Because motherfuckers are cheap round here.

Getting Torre isnt the last move that the Dodgers will be making.
 
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We can clown all we want on th eDodgers becuase they did fucking nothing last year, BUT...

...they have shown that they will pony up and buy good free agents. If you think they're gonna hire Torre and that's it, then you don't know big franchise baseball.

My cheap ass Padre front office would never do the same, that's why were left to hope for our "scrappy" ball club to even make the playoffs. Our best pitcher (Jake Peavy) will most like be pitching for another ball club after next season - WHY? Because motherfuckers are cheap round here.

Getting Torre isnt the last move that the Dodgers will be making.
youre exactly right about the padres, dont get me started on them. but the dodgers have doubled us as far as payroll for the last three seasons and every season have finished behind us
 
Sep 25, 2005
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tru i think he is overated...hes had like an allstar team evry year...anybody can mange that...
that doesnt take away the fact that he makes the right decision almost all of the time. and btw not any1 can manage that. grady little couldnt manage the red sox over the yankees when he was in charge there, and they were a better team.


LA doesnt have the same talent as NY does.. So Torre wont be a big factor there
thats when i good manger means more. when the talent isnt extreme liker the yankees have been the last few years.

that just goes to show how little you guys know about baseball. torre is 100 times better than grady little. why they hired little in the first place is a mystery after seeing the way he ran boston when there.

torre will be a major upgrade. he knows how to manage a team. a team that has high upside potential. i believe just torre along at the helm last year would have put the dodgers at 90-72 instead of 82-80
 

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dodgers aint got no one over 25 years old on that team i think,besides kent!...and thery're all scrubby cry babys,arguing and shit..theres problems out there in the locker room wit all them yougsters the dodgers have..no leader ship!...torre has his work cutt out for him if he goes to l.a!!...i see a rod signing wit a team thats a contender in wutever division its in...but who knows,..hope a rod goes to anaheim!!
 
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furcal and pierrre 29 or 30, nomar is 34ish, lowe and Saito are also 35ish,

Ethier, Kemp, Loney, Martin, Broxton, Billingsly, Kuo, Abreau, LaRoache, Alvarez and Meloan are all under 25 some by several years