[新聞] Torre tries to clear air with Cashman
Torre tries to clear air with Cashman
Former Yankees manager critical of GM in upcoming book
By Bryan Hoch / MLB.com
NEW YORK -- The pages of text relating to Joe Torre's version of his final
days under employment with the Yankees have not yet made it to bookshelves.
But the manager is already making efforts to clear the air. Torre reached
out Sunday to Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, calling his former
boss from a vacation spot in Hawaii.
Cashman was in attendance at the Baseball Writers' Association of America
awards dinner in New York and spoke briefly with reporters.
"Joe Torre called me from Hawaii not too long ago, actually. I just will
say, I'm glad he gave me a call," Cashman told reporters, according to the
New York Daily News, "and I think you should wait for the book."
Torre's book, a collaboration with Tom Verducci, hones in on the skipper's
life with the Yankees from 1996-2007. The period brought great amounts of
success, including four World Series titles and six American League pennants,
but also a fair amount of controversy.
Excerpts of the more salacious details surfaced in reports published Sunday
by the Daily News and the New York Post. In the book, according to reports,
Torre notes that Alex Rodriguez was called "A-Fraud" by his teammates and
harbored an obsession with perceived rival Derek Jeter.
As the book pertains to Cashman, Torre is critical of the GM for not
relaying his wishes for a two-year contract after the 2007 season, and gripes
that the GM did not stump harder with management for him to stay.
Cashman had publicly supported Torre after the '05 and '06 seasons, and
continued to do so throughout the '07 campaign.
The Yankees were bounced in the first round of the playoffs by the Indians
and would eventually hire Joe Girardi, after Torre rejected an
incentive-based one-year contract that worked out to a 30 percent pay cut.
Torre later landed a three-year contract to manage the Dodgers.
"I will just say I'm very comfortable with the relationship I have with
Joe Torre and that the Yankees have with Joe Torre," Cashman said, according
to the Daily News. "He was a fantastic manager and you couldn't ask for any
more than what he did for us.
"We had a lot of great times, more than you can count or remember, to be
honest, and that's the sole focus that we all have, myself included,
obviously. Despite what was in the paper today, I'm glad Joe gave me a call
from Hawaii. It certainly made me feel better about what I was reading today."
In a Q&A published Sunday on SI.com, Verducci noted that the book is a
third-person narrative, not a first-person tell-all.
"This is the result of hundreds of interviews with not only Torre but
players, front-office executives, executives of other teams, players on
other teams," Verducci told SI.com. "It's a 477-page book about 12 years
of baseball history. Again, it's not a Joe Torre first-person book, so
there's a lot of reporting that's presented in there in addition to Joe's
insights.
"Smart people will judge the book upon actually reading it and not reading
preliminary reports prior to its publication. Once you understand the context
of the book you understand the information. It's not a tell-all book.
Anybody who reads it will understand that."
"The Yankee Years" is being published by Doubleday and will be released on
Feb. 3. Torre is set for a book signing that day at the Yogi Berra Museum in
Little Falls, N.J., and is scheduled to appear that night on "The Late Show
with David Letterman."
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