Joe Torre finally makes a job call -- MLB’s VP of on-field operations

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And we have a winner!

More than four months since Joe Torre managed his final game for the Dodgers, he’s finally decided what he wants to do in his life’s next chapter.

Become Major League Baseball’s executive vice president of on-field operations.

The New York Daily News, which first reported Torre was in talks with Commissioner Bud Selig regarding the position in January, said a formal announcement is expected Saturday in Arizona.

Torre, 70, will get to remain in Los Angeles in his new job. Torre wanted to stay in Los Angeles, where he managed the Dodgers for the last three seasons and his teenage daughter attends high school.

He will fill the VP vacancy created when Sandy Alderson left MLB to become the Mets’ general manager. The Daily News said Torre will be responsible for hiring the replacement for Bob Watson, who resigned in December as vice president of rules and on-field operations because of health issues.

Oh, yeah, and the newspaper said Torre would earn approximately $2 million.

Torre had also been offered a position with the Dodgers as an unspecified assistant to General Manager Ned Colletti. Seems he had other ideas.

When the Daily News originally broke the story last month it happened to mention that Torre had approached Selig last summer about the possibility of putting together his own group to purchase the Dodgers should they become for sale.

Guess that one’s on hold. For now, anyway.

-- Steve Dilbeck