Ron Gardenhire
Ron Gardenhire
Ronald Clyde Gardenhireis a former Major League Baseball shortstop for the New York Mets and former manager of the Minnesota Twins. He currently serves as a special assistant to the General Manager of the Minnesota Twins, Terry Ryan...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth24 October 1957
CityButzbach, Germany
great moment
Defining? Sure, it was a great moment for two young hitters. But let's not try to get there too often.
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And that's a pretty good formula. You get your starter to go eight or nine innings and you hit three-run homers. Normally it works out pretty good.
decision everyday opening until
A regular, everyday guy, yeah, were going to have one. But I don't have to make that decision until Opening Day.
bench classy enjoyed expect hits played presence spot watched
A presence like his can only help. He's a pretty classy man. We've always watched him and enjoyed the way he has played the game. We would expect him to come over and get some hits off the bench for us and do some spot playing.
classy help presence ready takes whatever
A presence like his can only help. He's a pretty classy man. He told me he's ready to do whatever it takes to help. If I need him to help some young kids, he'll do that.
chance joe remember separate star
The thing you have to remember is, Puckett didn't separate people. Everyone had a chance to be his friend. You could have been star or a Joe off the street, it didn't matter.
bit step
Sometimes you take a little bit of a step back to get where you need to be.
fire guy stick wonder worried
Sometimes I wonder -- if you just take a guy and stick him in the fire -- if it's the right thing to do. Let him come up here, play here and there, get some confidence. He's not worried if he's going to play every day.
clubhouse gone guys knowing respect
That's not the way we do things here. We have too much respect for Joe. If we did that, the guys in that clubhouse ... let's just say they would be very upset, knowing what Joe's gone through to get back here.
choked nice
That one kind of choked me up. I thought that was a pretty nice thing by big Buck.
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You're playing in between so if he hits the ball hard you have a chance to turn a double play. But he hit a little topper that you're not going to be able to do much with.
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You take the good and bad when you're talking about a power hitter. We're looking for someone who's going to hit those three-run homers and get you back into a game or blow the game open. He's a guy that has that ability.
hold obviously seen together
You never really know how it's going to work. You think you can hold it together for a while, but obviously we've seen a lot of things change. There's really not a lot you can do about it.
eight hit home might three
You might see him go 0 for 10 with eight strikeouts and then hit three home runs. He's going to let it fly.