Major League Baseball

Torre seeks position with MLB

Published Jan. 12, 2010 12:00 a.m. ET

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A few months into his retirement from managing, Joe Torre arrived at the Major League Baseball owners’ meetings with plans to discuss an executive role with commissioner Bud Selig on Thursday.

MLB is interested in hiring Torre, 70, for a prominent position within the baseball operations department. Torre said he has had multiple conversations with Selig about the possibility, but that an offer hasn’t materialized yet.

“I still think he (Selig) is talking with other people,” Torre said. “Bud knows me. We first met when I was like 16 years old, back in ’56, ’57. … There’s a two-way street here. He has to make up his mind that I’m the one for whatever job he has in mind.

“I don’t want just a job, because I managed for a long time and did this, that, and the other thing. I want a job where I feel like I can be of some benefit.”

Torre announced his retirement from managing last year, his third with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Torre spent all or part of 29 seasons as a big-league manager, including 12 with the New York Yankees, during which he won four World Series.

Torre plans to continue living in Los Angeles, where his daughter is in school. It’s also possible that he will return to the Dodgers as an adviser.

Torre said he has turned down offers to return to broadcasting, a role he held in between managerial jobs during the 1980s. If MLB doesn’t hire him, Torre said, “I may do some of that, but I don’t want to get locked into that many games. I enjoy working, but the managerial schedule and the mental part of it really took its toll. I just thought I had enough.”

He added: “I don’t think I could be tempted into doing that (managing) again."