Murray Chass: RETIREMENT RIGHT PLACE FOR TORRE

It is painful to say this, but Joe Torre did such a poor job managing Team USA in the World Baseball Classic that I think Bobby Valentine could have done better.

Despite the Americans’ obvious problems hitting and scoring runs, Torre managed with the imagination of a tree trunk. [...]

Good managers, though, can adjust quickly and adapt to new circumstances.

But what do I know? Torre once told me I didn’t know anything about baseball, and neither, for that matter, did any other writer.