Joseph Paul Torre (born July 18, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) is a former Major League Baseball player and the current manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He played for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals, and New York Mets; he has also managed all three teams.
Although he had a fairly unimpressive managerial record with the Mets, Braves, and Cardinals, it was during Torre's tenure as manager of the New York Yankees that he has thus far achieved his greatest success. In the years that he led the team, from 1996 to 2007, the Yankees went to the post-season each year and won ten American League East Division titles, six American League pennants, and four World Series titles, in addition to compiling a .605 winning percentage with them. On November 1, 2007 Joe Torre was officially hired by the Los Angeles Dodgers to become their new manager.
