Prior to managing his final game for the Dodgers yesterday Joe Torre reiterated to Tony Jackson of ESPNLosAngeles.com that he doesn’t plan to manage in the big leagues again, but did say that a short-term gig skippering the World Baseball Classic team in 2013 “would be interesting.”
You wouldn’t have a lot of baggage there, and it would be stimulating. Sure, at some point, if somebody thinks I could be a benefit. That is the key for me. Whatever I do, it has to be because I can help, not just because I have been around a long time.
Of course, 2013 is way off in the distance and Torre will be 73 years old by the time the next WBC arrives, although as Jackson notes Tommy Lasorda was 71 years old when he managed the United States to a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics.
