Joe Torre, who managed Derek Jeter for 12 seasons in New York, believes the shortstop will retire before he becomes a detriment to his team. "I think Derek is gonna be of a mind that if he doesn't feel he can help you, he's gonna do something else," Torre said. Torre said Sunday at Yankee Stadium that the two continue to maintain a close relationship. Torre, who now serves as Major League Baseball's vice president of baseball operations, had altered his schedule so that he'd have the opportunity to see Jeter's 3,000th hit live and in-person. However, Jeter strained his right calf on June 13 and remains six hits shy of becoming the 28th player in baseball history to reach the 3,000-hit club. "I'm disappointed about it," Torre said. "Now that I made my own schedule for the first time, I had it pretty well figured out that I was going to be there. I was there (in New York on Thursday) before they went to Chicago and Cincinnati. I had it locked." "But then he selfishly got hurt," Torre joked. "So I gotta figure it out again."