Former Yankees manager Joe Torre joined Sal and Tiki on Thursday, with the show being broadcast from Sleepy Hollow Country Club to promote Torre’s Safe at Home Foundation, and offered his thoughts on what Aaron Boone and the Yankees are going through right now.
“What the Yankees are going through now, it’s tough,” Torre said. “It’s tough when you miss Aaron Judge. He makes players around you better.
“I think everyone is taking on more responsibility and pressure than they need to. But all of a sudden, you win three or four games, and you get your mojo back and start heading in the right direction.”
Torre never missed the playoffs as Yankee manager, and neither has Boone, though he is danger of doing so in 2023 if the team can’t turn things around. Still, Torre isn’t a stranger to rough stretches by Yankee teams that had high expectations, whether it be the brutal second half of the 2000 season that resulted in an 87-win campaign, or the rough start to the 2007 season. So, if he were in Boone’s spot, he would try to maintain a level of calm, as Torre was lauded for doing successfully during his accomplished Yankee tenure.
“Aaron played for me,” Torre said. “He comes from a baseball background. To me, baseball is a game of life. You play it every day. you have to try to eliminate the highs and the lows and find a middle you can keep.
“Don’t lie to them. You still have to tell them ‘Hey, we need to get better in this area or that area, and we can do it.’”
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