Torre Group Pulls Out of Bidding for Dodgers February 24, 2012, 5:26 pm Joe Torre's brief flirtation at being part of a group trying to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers is over. The reason: the parking lots that surround Dodger Stadium. Frank McCourt, who is selling the team, will not sell the lots so Rick J. Caruso, the developer whose group Torre joined, pulled out of the bidding. "Our team has worked very hard over the past few months to develop what we are confident would be a compelling and competitive offer," Caruso and Torre said in a letter dated Feb. 17, to Rob Manfred, the executive vice president of M.L.B. But they wrote that they will not submit their application, because "it would be impossible to effectively manage baseball operations having the parking lots that surround the stadium under separate ownership." The letter was first reported by The Los Angeles Times. In early January, Torre left his job as M.L.B."s executive vice president of baseball operations to work with Caruso. Torre managed the Dodgers from 2008 to 2010 after 12 seasons as the Yankees" manager. Given his high profile, Torre could conceivably join one of the other groups vying to buy the Dodgers.