Joe Torre - is it really his fault Yanks haven't been to World Series?

No, it's not Torre's fault. I think the better way to judge a manager is the regular season, which is 162 games - not the postseason, which for the Yankees was only 4 games. The Yankees were 6-0 against the Indians in the regular season. And in the regular season, the Yankees had the best record in baseball in the second half of the season. For a manager to be able to turn a team around from the awful start that they had - that's saying something. If you get your team to enough postseasons, they're bound to win in some of them. It's unrealistic to expect Joe Torre to singlehandedly cause the Yankees to win the world series every year. The team has just been doing poorly in the first round in the last few years. It happens. The Yankees have at least made it to the postseason for every one of the 13 consecutive years that Torre has been the manager, winning 6 AL titles. Apparently the Yankees organization thought that wasn't enough...

I don't understand the Yankees position, not at all. The NY Yankee's problem is that the owner not longer controls the team, his son's do and they've surronded themselves w/ businessmen who are only concerned about the bottom line. Yes, they will spend money to field a competitive team, but the decisions are being made by business men not baseball men. They made an offer that they knew would insult Torre and he would turn it down... it's a very sad day... amny of the current ballplayers have only played under Torre and now he's gone. Makes you wonder what impact this has on re-signing ARod and Mariano Riveria and Jorge Posada. Don Mattingly has stated he IS NOT ready to take over as the full-time manager, I hope they don't dump this mess in his lap and say fill Torre's shoes (cause Mattingly may be the only name in the organization that could do so) I knew it would happen , but it's sad.

I don't think it is really Torre's fault that they didn't make it to the World Series. I think it is ridiculous that they as much as fired them. He turned the Yankees into a real contender year after year, and he should have been given another chance. It is going to be interesting to see what happens next year without Torre or Alex Rodriquez (because I don't think he will stay in NY).

I don't see how Torre can be blamed for not getting the team to the World Series. He made it several times, and when he didn't he at least made the playoffs, so I'd say he did his job. Teams have ups and downs, and that's just a fact of life. As I used to tell my kids when they played sports, no one player wins or loses a game, and neither does the coach, unless he's really inept. Torre has proven that is not the case, and blaming him for the team's down years is just wrong. It's the team as a whole that didn't do the things they needed to do to win, not just one person.

no its not his fault at all. the other teams in the league have just gotten better. it happens all the time. no one can be on top all the time. i think torre is a great coach and coached his players very well in a lot of games. there is no doubt that he will do great in LA.

Being a huge Yankee fan and Joe Torre fan I am very sad also to see him leave to LA. I don't think it's his fault they didn't make it to the World Series, let along past the Divisional series the past few years. You are right that it's the players that go into slumps and that does not reflect on the manager. One thing to knock Joe, last year during the series against Clevelend he should have talked to the umps more about delaying the game when all the bugs were surrounding the mound