"Joe Torre, beloved in New York for converting an underachieving, high-payroll team into World Series champion, is being hired to duplicate his magic on the West Coast."
I truly don't understand why Buck Showalter, Gene Michael, Bob Watson, etc. need to be disrespected in order to praise Joe Torre.
Torre presided over several underachieving, high-payroll teams.
But the team of underachievers he supposedly "converted" was already a very good team. A playoff team, in fact.
1993: 88-74 (.543)
1994: 70-43 (.619)
1995: 79-65 (.549)
Total: 237-182 (.566)
Not 114 wins, but not a bunch of underachievers.
Also, just for the record, the 1995 Yankees were not really overpaid. Not like Abreu / Clemens / Damon / Pavano / Giambi overpaid. The team won the wild card and did not have the highest payroll in their division, at least I don't think they did. I think the Orioles had the highest payroll in the division in 1995.
"The hiring of Torre, who probably will bring along Yankees bench coach Don Mattingly, might have as big an impact on the organization as the 1998 blockbuster trade of Mike Piazza to the Florida Marlins."
Bigger impact than Mike Piazza.
Sure.
Sure, they will.
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