In a rather shocking move, longtime Yankees manager Joe Torre rejected a one-year, $5 million offer from owner George Steinbrenner to coach the team next season.
“Joe torre turned that offer down today. We respect his decision. We respect everything he has done but it is now time to move forward,” Yankees’ President Randy Levine said.
“The goal of this franchise is to win the World Series. All of us get up everyday knowing that that is the goal. Unfortunately we have not met that goal for seven years. It’s nobody’s fault. All of us are in it together. All of us are responsible,” Levine said during a conference call today.
” Joe Torre is a legendary Yankees manager,” Levine said.
Good for Joe. He made this decision because it benefited himself more than it did the Yankees. He’s served that team very well over the past two decades, so he shouldn’t have taken an offer unless it was the best decision for himself.
Who knows what he would have accepted, but he doesn’t deserve to go through the, “Will he be brought back?” nonsense again next year. Hopefully the next job he takes is one where he can just manage and not have to worry about what mood Steinbrenner is in. Or maybe the Yankees will set him up with an upper management job. Either way, he deserves the utmost respect for how well he handled that big top circus called the New York Yankees manager job.
So who becomes the next manager for the Bronx Bombers?
